Mary
Trump, Donald Trump's niece, has a new book out entitled "The
Reckoning." She was a wonderful interview and a must see on "The Last
Word" last evening on MSNBC. Mary Trump is a psychologist and is very
insightful as to the nature of the American electorate and brings to her
argument much knowledge about the character and substance or lack of
them of her uncle. She was asked if she thought Trump was a fascist to
which she replied yes, and thought about, as do I too, how Trump managed
to get 74 million people to vote for him given his cruel bombastic
essence, the mendacious character of his candidacy and the plethora of
his administration's illegalities and ad infinitum lies over the past 4
years.
To
understand the base of Trump's supporters we too must ask the question
is he a Fascist. If one looks to other eras in world history for the
definition of a Fascist one need only look to 1933 Germany and Italy up
through and including World War II. The Webster's Dictionary definition
of Fascism is
"a political
philosophy, movement, or regime that
exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a
centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe
economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of
opposition." Clearly Donald Trump has designs on the echelons of in
perpetuity power with him as the unquestioned authoritarian head forever
if need be.
It
is clear from US history the interconnectedness of nationalism and race
which has been part of US history since its inception and is an
integral part of Fascist thought. Slavery, and the failure of
Reconstruction, the institution of Jim Crow, literacy tests, lynchings,
other killings of Blacks and segregation were prime examples of the
cultivation of hate in American culture. The Republican dastardly
attempts to deny persons of color the vote by institutionally
guaranteeing dozens of laws across the nation are geared again to
depriving Blacks and other persons of color the vote and ensuring white
Republican control of all elections is the Republican right wing goal.
Certainly race and racism are to those who support fascist dictatorial
movements a supreme ingredient of American fascism and one which Trump
put his imprimatur on almost from the beginning of his trajectory to the
presidency when he told the Proud Boys to "stand down and stand by."
White
supremacy is not new to the American political experience. We fought
the Civil War over it but what is new and what Trump delivered was a
verbalization and an acceptance of it which was heretofore absent in
American formal political parlance and campaigns for the presidency.
The members of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the American Nazi
Party, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Base and numbers of militia groups
across the country are standing by ready to do Trump's bidding whatever
it may be. When Trump called them to duty on January 6, 2021 and issued
a seditious command they were there. These groups are many in number
and must have thought they died and went to heaven as Trump over and
over again sanctions and advocates for their actions something that even
Charles Lindbergh, supporter of 1933 Nazi Germany, could not do. Trump
tells mostly whites at a campaign stop to not be afraid to crack heads.
Mostly white men were at the staging of a coup at the Capitol, the seat
of American democracy, using a variety of right wing supporters with a
variety of symbols proclaiming 6MWE (Six million was not enough),
sporting Camp Auschwitz tattoos and carrying an abundance of Confederate
flags minutes before the election of Joe Biden was to be approved are
more examples of Trump's treachery. Finally, Trump employs Hitler's use
of the Big Lie, promoting consistently that the 2020 election was not
lost by him but was stolen by the liberal left and Democrats when an
abundance of authorities and even Republican courts clearly have found
zero evidence of that.
These
Fascist like groups are armed, they are violent, and the January 6,
2021 violent attack on the Capitol was an example of the brute force
they would use to take democracy down. American Fascism has a
charismatic leader in Trump who advocates for American Fascism and the
death of democracy.
They tried this time to take it down and failed. Maybe next time we
will not be so lucky. The threat to our democratic system of government
is grave and immediate!
Join us and tell Congress to pass both
the H.R. 1 For the People Act and H.R 4 the John Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act. Both are needed to Build Our Democracy Anew.
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