Not quite. Trump & co. have some common points with the fascists like a sense of theatre. But fascists built quite big ugly things they consider as modern and futurist. They made roads and others stuff… Not my cup of tea but their projects were “grandiose”.
They also want to expand physically, conquer new territories…
Trump and like are more in the destruction of the institutions and protectionism… It is turned to the past… As a project, it’s tight.
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I’m inclined to agree with you, but he’s broken away from his fellow congressman before when he (belatedly) acknowledged Biden as the winner of the election, and was practically the only republican willingly to vote to certify Trump’s election before the attack on Wednesday forced other members to change their minds.
Granted, that doesn’t guarantee he’ll vote for conviction but he’s shown he’s willing to be an outlier if the need arises. He already knows of the damage Trump is inflicting upon the party, and frankly he more than a little angry at him for the attack(if reports are to be believed). Not to mention, Trump’s election fraud conspiracy theories cost the party the senate. So it’s possible Mitch can vote Trump out as simply a means to prevent him from becoming a force in the party in the future. Cleansing the party from Trump’s influence would be ideal for Mitch, who I’m sure would greatly prefer a much more stable person as the GOP president. Getting rid of Trump would be healthier for the party long-term even if it results in alienating his cultish base. Trump is a cancer that needs to needs be removed from the body of the party, and Mitch could see this as his best chance to get rid of it before it spreads further to the point it kills the party.
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"I love mankind...it's people I can't stand!!"
- Charles Schultz.
Donald John Trump.
2 Impeachments, 1 Term.
Film at 11.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
No matter what happens in the Senate. Trump is now impeached twice in his term of 4 years bracketed by losing the popular vote both times, the electoral vote the second time, and losing all three branches for his party in the second. That's a mark of shame that will follow him forever. Likewise, 10 House Republicans voted to impeach him making it the most bipartisan impeachment yet.
The insurrection of last week, the Putsch of January 6 has a legislative monument and I am happy for that.
What happens now in the senate well that's on McConnell.
Trump's "big beautiful wall" is an example of his ambition to build stuff, as is making Space Force a thing. So I'd chalk that up there.
The actual Nazis pitched grand projects but never actually got to building around stuff like Albert Speer's big projects and so on. The Autobahn was a project that originated under the Weimar Republic for instance and was never actually completed under Nazi Germany and only ever existed in propaganda.
So it's quite apt.
That's what Fascism is too. It's a mistake to think of fascism and Nazism as some modern futurizing thing. it was basicallyn a hodgepodge mixing elements of both and a kind of heightened, narrow, nationalism and personality cult. MAGA is just like that.Trump and like are more in the destruction of the institutions and protectionism… It is turned to the past… As a project, it’s tight.
Anyway, the point of identifying fascism after the Holocaust is surely to recognize, halt, and prevent fascism from reaching the stage of genocide, no? Do we wait for the arrival of extermination camps to call Trump a fascist or do we stop at the failed Putsch?
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As a Colorado native I apologize for that Super Saiyan Sarah Palin, Lauren Boebert.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
You have nothing to apologize for.
Boebert does look a bit like Sarah Palin's younger (and possibly dumber and more violent) clone.
I am more than a little disappointed that New York State despite being so blue, has GOP reps in Congress and these aren't the moderate GOP that NYS supposedly has on the state level but extreme Trump-voting assholes like Rep. Zeldin. So does California.
Censuring anyone in the house is going to be hard to impossible unless actual evidence of criminal and seditious collusion unearths about Boebert or Greene or others. You can't boot out 197 people out of the House. Hopefully you can go after scapegoats and intimidate the rest.
You're quite welcome!
You have nothing to apologize for.
Thank ya, its embarrassing though, she's an absolute trainwreck. Long rap sheet, her husband was accused of freaking exposing himself to children, its just...trashy. Its just so amazing that all you have to do is say "I gots guns, 'Murica!" and get elected to office. And she definitely likes to give the appearance of being more violent. I don't know how much of it is just stupid posturing but its not a good look either way. Honestly I'm most disturbed with her tweeting during the insurrection. People in the building were specifically told not to, but she did anyway like pointing out when Pelosi was being moved.Boebert does look a bit like Sarah Palin's younger (and possibly dumber and more violent) clone.
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington
Rep. John Katko of New York
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming
Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina
Rep. David Valadao of California
There's your 10 Rs that the GOP will be vilifying over the next few months.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium