Fascism expert sounds alarm on Trump’s latest: 'I will free you from all decision making'
3 months ago

Fascism expert sounds alarm on Trump’s latest: 'I will free you from all decision making'

Raw Story  

Ruth Ben-Ghiat — authoritarian expert and professor of history and Italian studies at New York University — during Sunday's episode of MSNBC's The Weekend, responded to Donald Trump's latest Truth Social rant directed towards women. The former president declared — in all caps — that if he wins the White House, "WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE!" "When Donald Trump says as we just noted, women will be happy, healthy, confident, and free, you will no longer be thinking about abortion — to me that is dear leader speak," The Weekend co-host and former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele told Ben-Ghiat. It sends a chill down my spine when Donald Trump says women won't have to think about abortion anymore because he also said something similar about voting when he talked to a group of evangelicals," Ben-Ghiat replied.

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Calling Trump a fascist isn’t the knockout blow Kamala thinks it is
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Calling Trump a fascist isn’t the knockout blow Kamala thinks it is

The Independent  

Less than two weeks before polling day in the United States, a new and highly emotive word entered the campaign. Harris picked up the word second-hand – with evident alacrity – from Donald Trump’s one-time chief-of-staff, retired US Marine Corps general John Kelly, who used it in a New York Times interview. So while the fascist charge plays to Harris’s …

Harris Says Trump Is a Fascist at CNN Town Hall
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2 months ago

Harris Says Trump Is a Fascist at CNN Town Hall

Hindustan Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris has declared that Donald Trump is a 'fascist' during a CNN town hall. This remark is part of her closing message to voters in the 2024 presidential election. The RNC is rebuilding its legal operation after Trump allies' failed effort to undo the 2020 election, and Republicans are working to present a more organized, skilled legal …

'Definition of a fascist:' Ex-White House chief of staff John Kelly sounds alarm on Trump
2 months ago

'Definition of a fascist:' Ex-White House chief of staff John Kelly sounds alarm on Trump

Raw Story  

Former Marine General John Kelly, who also served as Donald Trump’s longest-running chief of staff, blasted his old boss in interviews with the New York Times, spurred by the former president’s recent threats to use the military on the “enemy from within.” “I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one …

Learning to trust Trump's generals: There's a reason why his military men now call him a fascist
2 months ago

Learning to trust Trump's generals: There's a reason why his military men now call him a fascist

Salon  

Before Donald Trump was considered nothing more than a circus sideshow, some of us noted during the 2015 GOP presidential primaries that his rhetoric and agenda bore all the hallmarks of the "f" word: fascism. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg chronicled Trump's odd antipathy toward the military during his first term, the details of which were further confirmed by Susan Glasser …

Trump isn't just a fascist
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump isn't just a fascist

Raw Story  

I think there are two conversations about Donald Trump’s fitness that are happening in tandem, but are not connecting as they should. “He cannot consistently repeat his position on key issues” The question of which came first, Trump’s fascism or his dementia, was apparently on the mind of Mark Milley. In an interview with Bob Woodward, Milley said Trump is …

'What's fascism?' GOP lawmaker enraged as CNN puts him on spot over Trump threat
2 months, 1 week ago

'What's fascism?' GOP lawmaker enraged as CNN puts him on spot over Trump threat

Raw Story  

CNN host John Berman enraged Rep. Mike Waltz after he was asked about former President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the military to fight "the enemy from within" during U.S. elections. "I do want to ask you about Donald Trump's comments about the quote enemy from within," Berman told Waltz during a Tuesday interview. "I think it's responsible to discuss …

'This is fascism!' Morning Joe checks off all the ways Trump meets chilling definition
1 year, 1 month ago

'This is fascism!' Morning Joe checks off all the ways Trump meets chilling definition

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has sent every possible warning that he intends to rule as a fascist autocrat, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said it's long past time to cover his presidential campaign around that startling fact. The New York Timespublished an article highlighting Trump's fascist tendencies, and the "Morning Joe" host went through a checklist of the defining characteristics of fascism. "It's …

Sparks fly in Morning Joe debate on GOP threat to democracy: 'If that's not fascism, I don't know what is'
2 years, 1 month ago

Sparks fly in Morning Joe debate on GOP threat to democracy: 'If that's not fascism, I don't know what is'

Raw Story  

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough clashed with a guest during a debate over whether the Republican Party had become a fascist movement. Author Shadi Hamid and MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan resumed their discussion on the future of American democracy Wednesday on "Morning Joe," but Scarborough bridled at his guest's assessment of GOP authoritarianism and the investigation of Donald Trump's ties to Russia. …

Opinion; Trump is not a fascist. But that didn’t make him any less dangerous to our democracy
3 years, 11 months ago

Opinion; Trump is not a fascist. But that didn’t make him any less dangerous to our democracy

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Thomas Weber is professor of history and international affairs at the University of Aberdeen and author most recently of “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi”. CNN — Over the last five years, I have often wondered how political analysts who have compared Donald Trump’s presidency to the rise of Nazi Germany would feel if a time machine …

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