Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist and his Presidency will turn the United States into a fascist country
28 October 2024
If Trump is elected, we can expect the U.S. to become a fascist country with fascist policies. As Heather Cox Richardson noted, in quoting from a 1945 War Department document:
Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”
“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.
Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”
If Trump wins, we can expect:
There will be threats, attacks and ultimately massive deportations of immigrants (legal or illegal), leading to severe hardships to those affected and their communities, such as Dearborn, Michigan, which will become ghost towns.
There will also be a crisis in health care, as physicians and other personnel leave and new trainees decline to come here from other countries.
It will be a crime to criticize Trump or his followers. Those who criticized him in the past will also be threatened, attacked and prosecuted. Perhaps Elon Musk will offer a daily incentive of $1 million to Americans who snitch on those critical of Trump.
The law and the Courts will become less relevant. Even out of office, Trump is pretty much above the law. With the power of the Presidency to threaten those who oppose him, this will be even more true.
The perversion of truth and fact will continue. Truth and fact will be what Trump says they are today. It may change tomorrow.
There will be no more free and fair elections since an election will be declared invalid if Trump’s lapdogs don’t win.
The rights of women and girls will revert to what they were pre 1960.
Women will not be allowed to work in any manner that would interfere with their primary responsibilities to reproduce and care for their children.
Women and girls will be considered the possession of men and boys, who can pretty much do with them what they want.
Women’s health care will decline because a fertilized egg will be deemed to have more rights than pregnant women and girls, and women and girls will be denied treatment that might damage an embryo, even if they are not pregnant.
Abortion will be banned with no exceptions (doctors won’t do them anyway).
Most birth control will be banned (the pill, the morning after pill, IUDs).
Trump will interfere with the independence of the Federal Reserve, leading to marked stock market declines and a severe recession.
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