How the GOP went from a Far Right Party into a Neofascist Party under Donald Trump
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It might sound ludicrous to the accuse the GOP (Republicans) of being fascist, or that I'm employing ‘fascism’ in the pejorative sense. But if you look at the parallels with historical fascists, their ideology is almost identical. Today's GOP has many commonalities to fascist ideology, such as:
⭐ 1. A longing and wishful thinking for how the past was and a nostalgic view of America as it was in “idealization” of the 1950s that never really was. - Trump and his ideologues dreams of recreating a ‘Leave it to Beaver’ society where women had few rights & white men held all the power is one of his foremost goals.
⭐ 2. Xenophobic/racist viewpoints - I don't see how this can be disputed. Mexican children in cages, building a useless wall, describing Hispanic people as “criminals” and on and on and on.
⭐ 3, Using mass propaganda to spread their message (i.e.: Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, etc) – They have carefully studied the tactics of the past ‘inventors of modern propaganda’, such as Josef Goebbels (Propaganda Minster for Nazi Germany), Dmitri Shepilov (Head of Soviet Propaganda under Stalin), Dino Alfieri (head of the Ministry of Popular Culture under Mussolini) and many others. Edward Bernays, often called the father of public relations, was among the earliest to define propaganda as “a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of a public to an enterprise, idea, or group" Source: Teaching about Propaganda: An Examination of the Historical Roots of Media Literacy by Renee Hobbs & Sandra McGee - https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol6/iss2/5/ (Full PDF available for download)
Seven Propaganda Devices by Edward Bernays: https://i.ibb.co/JjjY2Tm/Seven-Propaganda-Devices-by-Edward-Bernays-1923.png
Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) by Edward Bernays - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61364 (PDF, epub, Kindle, HTML & plaintext)
⭐ 4. A violent opposition to those on the left/Marxist/socialists and even liberals - They not only despise these people w/these viewpoints – they have no interest in what each ideology represents or understands or cares what they stand for or what the differences are – but will actively get into street battles with them. This is similar to the Freikorps or SA (Sturmabteilung) during Weimar Germany.
⭐ 5. A Cult of Personality under Trump - This is one of the clearest examples out there. If Trump could build a giant gold statue of himself, like Kim il-Sung, he absolutely would. All politicians on the GOP must agree with Trump & any of his messages or random on the spot pronouncements or just whatever random thoughts he has on his mind & if they don't "kiss the ring" & agree with Trump's ludicrous viewpoints or “ideology”, the Trumpists will turn completely against these candidates or representatives. It’s often hilarious to watch them try and justify & rationalize something crazy and seriously stupid Trump said. There is no room for disobeying Trump's orders or not praising him enough & any GOP politician that doesn't will have their feet held to the fire. If this was any other country, Trump surely would have had these people purged.
⭐ 6. Attempting to circumvent democracy by any means at their disposal, whether that's trying to sabotage the USPS, to force states to do recounts that cost these states millions of dollars, calling politicians and demanding more votes appear out of the blue like a rabbit out of a magician’s hat. Incidentally, a recent investigation by the AP only found a TOTAL OF 475 fraudulent votes across the battleground states in total. https://thehill.com/homenews/presidential-campaign/585901-ap-finds-fewer-than-475-cases-of-potential-voter-fraud-in-six. Trump will try any and all methods to hold onto any power he has – whether that be through legitimate or illegitimate means. Trump, as has been shown, has absolutely no regard for any laws that have to do with him.
⭐ 7. Totalitarian intentions - Trump circumvented the law on many occasions in his presidency, including ignoring subpoenas & telling aids to do the same, failing to uphold the Constitution he swore on. But issuing executive orders to enforce his will to simply bypass Congress, not to mention a love of violence & calls for violent tactics that resulted in his most outrageous act as President, an attempted Putsch of the democratically elected US government on January 6th.
⭐ 8. Trump’s follower’s are heavily armed – the right wing fetishism of firearms and constantly stockpiling more & more as they hear the false message from the NRA (who is in league with the gun manufacturers to sell more guns) that a Democratic Presidents will take away their guns continues this group to keep to buying more and more guns. This is a map of cataloged hate, white supremacist, Neo-Nazi & similiar groups in the USA: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
"In a landmark study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1993, researchers found that having a gun in the home was linked with nearly three times higher odds that someone would be killed at home by a family member or intimate acquaintance. Studies using more recent data have come to the same conclusion. In a 2019 study, researchers found that states with high levels of household gun ownership have more domestic gun homicides than other states do. In fact, the quartile of states with the highest rates of gun ownership have 65 percent more domestic gun homicides than the quartile with the least, which is worrisome considering that domestic violence has worsened during the coronavirus outbreak."
Arthur L. Kellermann, Frederick P. Rivara, Norman B. Rushforth, Joyce G. Banton, Donald T. Reay, Jerry T. Francisco, Ana B. Locci, Janice Prodzinski, Bela B. Hackman, and Grant Somes. "Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home" N Engl J Med 1993; 329:1084-1091
Abstract: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506
Full Study (PDF): https://www.mediafire.com/file/yby7cozlcjel1qg/Gun+Ownership+as+a+Risk+Factor+for+Homicide+in+the+Home.pdf/file
“With everyone staying home, those new guns are more likely to fall into the hands of a child or other inexperienced user, with deadly consequences,” says Levine, an economist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
This is a problem because “we know that guns in the home increase the risk for gun injury,” says Cassandra Crifasi, the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
The other big concern about guns right now is suicide. In a study published this June in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers followed more than 26 million adults in California for up to 12 years, keeping track of whether they purchased handguns and if they died by suicide. They found that men who had purchased handguns were then more than three times as likely to die by suicide — primarily gun suicide — compared with men who hadn’t bought handguns, and that women who’d purchased handguns were more than seven times as likely to die by suicide as women who hadn’t bought handguns. As the researchers concluded, “ready access to firearms, particularly handguns, is a major risk factor for suicide.”
David M. Studdert, LL.B., Sc.D., Yifan Zhang, Ph.D., Sonja A. Swanson, Sc.D., Lea Prince, Ph.D., Jonathan A. Rodden, Ph.D., Erin E. Holsinger, M.D., Matthew J. Spittal, Ph.D., Garen J. Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H., and Matthew Miller, M.D., Sc. Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California. June 4, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 382:2220-2229
Abstract: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1916744
Full Study (PDF): https://www.mediafire.com/file/zv2bi66szk60tcj/Handgun+Ownership+and+Suicide+In+California.pdf/file
Read more:
The Trace - Will a Gun Keep Your Family Safe? Here’s What the Evidence Says By Melinda Wenner Moyer - Apr 7, 2020: https://www.thetrace.org/2020/04/gun-safety-research-coronavirus-gun-sales/
If you wish to read more, I encourage you to read the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Common characteristics of fascist movements" @ https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Common-characteristics-of-fascist-movements
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