‘Don’t You See What’s Happening?’ Experts Call Trump’s Latest Moves ‘Full Blown Fascism’

the democratic party had zero problems with shutting down speech - locking up journalists - and so on

kindly fuck off. you are not worthy of even a debate on this.

Yep. Now they're facing investigations and prosecutions for real crimes, not fake ones, and crying about it.
 
COVID was likely the greatest crime against humanity ever in history.

Ukraine is for the Imperial Empire likely the biggest military blunder in history.


Buckle Up.
 
President Donald Trump’s recent escalating rhetoric and actions across multiple fronts have alarmed political experts, who are now warning that the United States is not just drifting but accelerating toward fascism—and may have already crossed the threshold.

“He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him,” warned Republican Sarah Longwell, a political strategist and publisher of The Bulwark. “He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?”

Trump on Sunday night attacked CBS and its “60 Minutes” newsmagazine, a top-rated and esteemed broadcast for more than five decades. The President, apparently angered by its reporting, called for CBS’s broadcast license to be revoked. He also called on his hand-picked head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial, for their unlawful and illegal behavior,” namely, reporting facts he did not like.

On Monday, Trump told reporters he has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate sending U.S. citizens to foreign gulags, as The New Republic reported, without due process, something he floated last week, which experts say is illegal.

“Trump is denying due process to foreign nationals here legally — ripping them from their families and deporting them. Do we really believe this regime will follow any sort of due process for American citizens before he tries to deport them? Call it what it is: fascism,” declared U.C. Berkeley Professor of Public Policy and former Cabinet secretary Robert Reich.

“If Trump can claim a ‘national emergency’ to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?” asked Professor Reich. He warned: “No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.”

Reich pointed to a conversation (video below) between Trump and Bukele, caught on camera, where the U.S. president says, “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places.”

Also sounding the alarm, The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer on Monday warned: “The Constitutional Crisis Is Here.”

“Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to ‘facilitate’ the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.”

Abrego Garcia is the legal U.S. resident the Trump administration admits it wrongly “deported” to the notorious El Salvador mega-prison. Trump officials have made clear, through word and deed, they have no desire to right that wrong.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Attorney General Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.”

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, backing up the Trump administration, declared on Monday he has no intention of returning the 38-year old Abrego Garcia to the United States.

“This morning, however,” Serwer wrote, “Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgement that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a ‘saboteur,’ in the Department of Justice and that ‘he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador’; he added that ‘this was the right person sent to the right place.’ This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.”

The Atlantic’s Dr. Norman Ornstein, a well-known political scientist, warned: “Defying the Supreme Court, planning to spirit American citizens to El Salvador and saying that the courts have no role since it is a foreign country and the president has all foreign policy powers. We have entered the realm of fullblown fascism.”

Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, wrote: “Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.”

Thomas Kennedy, who works with the Florida Immigrant Coalition, responded to the video of Trump and Bukele.

“Referring to citizens as ‘home-growns’ while asking a foreign country known for prisons that operate like black sites to build more of those prisons so he can send those ‘home-growns’ is fascist stuff and it needs to be called as such.”

Watch the video below or at this link.


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-badash/113565/don-t-you-see-what-s-happening-experts-call-trump-s-latest-moves-full-blown-fascism

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I'm shocked....you mean the same morons that have been screaming Hitler, fascist, dictator, etc. now believe he's being fascist? Nobody saw this coming. Can you say 'Echo Chamber' of fools.
 
I'm shocked....you mean the same morons that have been screaming Hitler, fascist, dictator, etc. now believe he's being fascist? Nobody saw this coming. Can you say 'Echo Chamber' of fools.

It's like with thieves; they think 'everybody else' is a thief too, and just like them, hence these ass clowns' paranoia. Drug abuse is also a major factor.
 
There is a reason that the Fed chief is given a 10-year term. Same for lifetime terms for fed judges. It is to isolate them from politics and political forces. Powell is expected to do his job according to what the economy and market forces direct . Trump wants Powell to do what he wants, regardless of what the data says. Trump is not educated in economics and even less so on national and international scales. He is a floundering idiot who has to be stood up to to lessen his eventual damage.
 
*Chuckle...


Nobody is buying the "Fascist" Shitck anymore.
To the contrary, Trump is a recognized fascist according to the accepted definition;

"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." (Anatomy of Fascism, p 218

 
There is a reason that the Fed chief is given a 10-year term. Same for lifetime terms for fed judges. It is to isolate them from politics and political forces. Powell is expected to do his job according to what the economy and market forces direct . Trump wants Powell to do what he wants, regardless of what the data says. Trump is not educated in economics and even less so on national and international scales. He is a floundering idiot who has to be stood up to to lessen his eventual damage.
Which is why Trump is trying to eliminate or severely restrict independent agencies, and as we’ve seen, he has already dumped IGs and other watchdog entities created by Congress without a whimper from Congress
 
It's like with thieves; they think 'everybody else' is a thief too, and just like them, hence these ass clowns' paranoia. Drug abuse is also a major factor.
You're absolutely spot-on! Picture the sheer frustration when they unleashed the full might of the US Justice Department and every intelligence agency to obliterate the entire Trump family. As you said, they project their own corruption onto everyone else, assuming they’d have him in a noose within a week. LOL. After years of relentless digging, scraping, spying, and intimidating witnesses, pulling every dirty trick in the book, they came up empty-handed. Zilch. Nada. Investigating a guy who’s done billions in business in a cesspool like New York City, and they still had nothing to show for it?

I think it's a major factor that drove them to the batshit insanity we see today. Finally, a New York State prosecutor took the plunge, tarnishing his reputation by cobbling together 34 felonies, charges that were conveniently past the statute of limitations. Talk about desperation! It must’ve been extremely infuriating for them. It's been like watching an old man with dementia spiral downhill fast, right? Feels like the whole world just saw that play out somewhere not too long ago.
 
You're absolutely spot-on! Picture the sheer frustration when they unleashed the full might of the US Justice Department and every intelligence agency to obliterate the entire Trump family. As you said, they project their own corruption onto everyone else, assuming they’d have him in a noose within a week. LOL. After years of relentless digging, scraping, spying, and intimidating witnesses, pulling every dirty trick in the book, they came up empty-handed. Zilch. Nada. Investigating a guy who’s done billions in business in a cesspool like New York City, and they still had nothing to show for it?

I think it's a major factor that drove them to the batshit insanity we see today. Finally, a New York State prosecutor took the plunge, tarnishing his reputation by cobbling together 34 felonies, charges that were conveniently past the statute of limitations. Talk about desperation! It must’ve been extremely infuriating for them. It's been like watching an old man with dementia spiral downhill fast, right? Feels like the whole world just saw that play out somewhere not too long ago.

They're poster children for the last 60+ years of ruining the education system, beginning with the grade inflation of the 1960's due to draft exemptions for enrolling in college, and growing significantly worse as the morons graduated and then infiltrated the primary and secondary grades in the public school systems and proceeded to do the same there.
 
You are a physically weak and feeble man.
I am a former signed professional athlete. In amateur sports I had a knockout in high school boxing... Do you know how difficult it is to do that with a head guard?

Of course you do not. You have no idea what it is to truly compete in sports.

You wont do very well when you get there.
Athletes often did not do well in the concentration camps, because they need a lot of calories to maintain their muscles, so you might be right. On the bright side, I have a world that wants my skills, so it probably will not come to that.
 
I am a former signed professional athlete. In amateur sports I had a knockout in high school boxing... Do you know how difficult it is to do that with a head guard?

Of course you do not. You have no idea what it is to truly compete in sports.


Athletes often did not do well in the concentration camps, because they need a lot of calories to maintain their muscles, so you might be right. On the bright side, I have a world that wants my skills, so it probably will not come to that.
:magagrin:
 
There is a reason that the Fed chief is given a 10-year term. Same for lifetime terms for fed judges. It is to isolate them from politics and political forces. Powell is expected to do his job according to what the economy and market forces direct . Trump wants Powell to do what he wants, regardless of what the data says. Trump is not educated in economics and even less so on national and international scales. He is a floundering idiot who has to be stood up to to lessen his eventual damage.
Well at least the head of the FED. has a term limit and I agree 100% that Fed, judges should have term limits too and so should the SC judges and people in Congress.
IMO a Congressmen should only be in office no more then 12 years same for a Senator.
We need people in there that will work for the PEOPLE and NOT be afraid of being taken over the coals by The President and the heads of their party and losing their job.
If they are only in there for a set term then maybe they will work for the people of the USA and not just go by party lines and that goes for BOTH parties.
 
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