Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Even worse, my dude. Savage is the opposite of civilized...but Trump is a product of civilization lit large. And the word "savage"...it was used to justify colonialism, in America and elsewhere. It's a word with a lot of bagage, all of it bad.
Fascist is exact and correct, anything other than that is category error and risks a sense of falsity about "the us versus them" dynamic we want to put against Trump. Obviously Trump is someone USA should be against, but if we call him barbarian then that implies that he's some outsider or foreigner, if we call him savage, we imply he's someone who is "primitive" and so on. Again none of that is representative of what Trump is and the threat he poses.