I’m the Granddaughter of 2 Polish Jews. My Father was born in Poland in 1930. My Grandmother, who had already became an American citizen, was visiting Family in Warsaw when she found out she was pregnant. She had my father, but soon after came back to the US. Both my grandparents lost many family members in the Holocaust. I know what Fascism is, and I have believed since 2015 that this was exactly who trump was. I listened to his words, I didn’t need any one to convince me of this fact. I never thought we would see someone like trump take over the Republican Party, but here we are. I will never forgive those republicans that allowed this to happen.
I think it isn’t that fascism&communist, as words, have been overused, I don’t think some ppl understand what those words mean.
GOP candidates call Democratic opponents communists while taking money from Putin? I don’t even know, is Russia seen as a communist country anymore?
Fascism in Trump’s case is total control, no more election, Stalin like retribution for those who question him.
While paying no taxes himself, he doesn’t want the government involved in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education etc.
Trump doesn’t care about infrastructure as long as his property is taken care of.
Let’s quit using polite phrases. Trump is a poorly educated person of limited intellect who wants absolute control over everything then to hand it over to the person he cherishes the most. Vladimir Putin.
Magacons (formerly known as republicans) call their opponents exactly what they themselves are. It's obvious that Drumpf and his lackeys are harmonious with Russia and are indeed Communist sympathizers.
I think Harris is setting the scene perfectly in the last two weeks of the campaign. Calling #TraitorTrump a Fascist is just the beginning, call him a TRAITOR, too! Campaigning in Texas with Beyonce and Willie Nelson next weekend could help, along with the Senate candidacy of Colin Allred, to flip the state back to Democrats just as it was in my youth. Maybe FL, too! People are tired of Fascists, and their lies and hate. The Big Blue Wave is coming, and no matter how much BS the mainstream media cranks out, they are gonna be caught in the flood of Democratic patriotism come November 6th.
Sharing your faith in Americans, that we will put country before party, as our Harris/Walz broad coalition helps us turn the page from almost a decade of Drumpf.
If he wins, it will be a disaster for our country. The SCOTUS is in his pocket. He'll fire civil service workers and replace them with sycophants. His cabinet will include Musk and anyone else who gave him a lot of money. We MUST win.
Mike, you know when Tuck whines about daddy punishing and spanking… taking control.. This is an old fascist trick… hoisting up a father figure. Mussolini did the same, Vlad, Xi Un… all big father figures to take care of the country as only a father can. 🤮🤮
I've written this essay, and would like to get it out there as much as possible. If you have suggestions how and where to do this, please let me know. Marc
Most fascist regimes come to power through military means, like Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain, but it’s a coin toss as to whether on November 5th, like with Nazi Germany, America becomes a fascist dictatorship through constitutional means. Should this happen, all minorities will suffer, but it’s clear by Trump’s campaign ads and the rhetoric coming from his white Christian nationalist base, that there is a particularly cruel agenda waiting to reverse the progress LGBT Americans have gained over fifty years.
Hitler didn’t start out killing Jews. Despite endemic Jew-Hatred, the German public in 1933 would not have stood for such barbarism. But by 1940, after years of Nazi propaganda portraying Jews as “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood” of Germany, this dehumanizing language made the disappearance of their Jewish neighbors much more attractive.
Trump’s campaign against gay and trans people won’t start with such draconian measures as forced imprisonment of LGBT citizens. Few Americans outside of the ten percent considered white Christian nationalists would tolerate this. Trump’s anti-gay/trans crusade will begin more modestly, with nationwide bans on acknowledging the existence of gay and trans people in schools, banning Pride parades by calling them “pornographic,” criminalizing same-sex public displays of affection, and adoption of Putin’s laws making it a crime to display rainbow flags or to “promote homosexuality.”
While Hitler had his gangs of “Brownshirts” to terrorize Jews, trade unionists, homosexuals and other “undesirables,” in America Trump has his ‘Proud Boys’ “standing back and standing by.” They are eager to make life hell for gay and trans Americans beyond what Trump and Republicans do legislatively.
Violence and oppression will be hallmarks of a Trump dictatorship. He has promised that chasing down 20,000,000 undocumented children and adults will be “bloody,” and that he will imprison political opponents like Congressman Adam Schiff. As CBS is finding out, any network offending him will run the risk of having their broadcast license revoked. And if laws fail to keep gay and trans Americans invisible, Trump’s ‘Proud Boys’ militia will be there to bash some gay heads and scare LGBT Americans back into the closet.
Many other white Christian nationalist groups stand ready to help marginalize LGBT Americans as well. A member of ‘Moms for Liberty’ Miami has suggested gay and trans students be placed in separate classrooms, “like kids with autism and Down’s syndrome.” The ‘Fairfield (Ohio) County Conservatives’ has initiated a boycott of all businesses supportive of their local LGBT Pride, echoing the April 1, 1933 boycott of Jewish-owned stores in Germany, which marked the beginning of the Nazi Party’s nationwide campaign against the entire German Jewish population.
There are those who take comfort that a second Trump presidency will only last four years, but the reality is that he won’t leave office until he dies. This became clear when Trump declared, “If we don’t win this election, I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country,” projecting onto Democrats his own plans. Trump cannot imagine anyone giving up power once you have it. He tried holding onto power after losing in 2020, but patriotic Americans followed our Constitution and foiled his schemes. He’s already insured, in JD Vance, that this won’t happen again.
Within days America will choose whether we keep our 237 year-old ‘experiment’ as a democratic republic with Harris, or become a fascist dictatorship under Trump. We have one chance to get this right, but if we don’t, America’s LGBT population will be in peril. Our nation will become the same hellhole for our LGBT friends and loved ones as it is for gay and trans Russians, and like in Putin’s Russia, the wealthy few will be able to get out, but for everybody else, there will be no place to run.
Not only LGBT, but all others who do not look like, believe like him, cheat like him, felon like him, rape like him, grift like him, and, of course, fornicate like Trump--liberal whites, from republican Blacks to liberal Blacks unless they are gift worth, i.e., wealthy, brown-skin people, the McCarthy others (those news reporters, etc. who opposed him), yes the tent is huge! The tasks seem impossible but lots of violence and suffering along the way. The only exception may be Native Americans because this country has done an excellent job of disenfranchising them! One point seems to me to be clear: there is a greater metaphysical force that is illuminating and shining a bright floodlight distinguishing pro-democrat people and pro-fascist people in the USA.
RE HITLER'S GENERALS: Trump has no ethical or moral bottom; therefore it is not possible for him to be astute and careful. If he did, the thought of wanting his generals to be like Hitler's Generals brings into sharp focus, "Operation Valkyrie 1944... where officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in conjunction with General Friedrich Olbricht and General Ludwig Beck of the German general staff" used two bombs at the Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia (Cambridge University Library) to kill Trump's idol, Adolf Hilter. In my mind, this REAL attempted assassination would be equivalent to an assassination attempt at CAMP DAVID. Actually, Trump would be better off, if he was in his right mind, to have generals from Westpoint than those who met at East Prussia in 1944.
My great grandfather was a German military officer in WW1. He saw what was coming and in 1933, he sold everything they had left and along with his wife, my grandmother and her sister got on a boat for America. They had a sponsor in the German community in Buffalo NY. My grandmother rarely spoke of it, but my great Aunt became a nun after what she had seen in 1930s Germany. Trump=Hitler, without the brains, but he has plenty of intelligent, evil accomplices aiding his desire to be an autocrat.
As a sitting US Vice President and Presidential candidate she would be very remiss NOT to have warned us about the Fascism and Fascists in our midst. I am grateful to her for calling it out as it is.
IF Trump was to get back into the WH, his only personal “input” would be to ensure that all his federal charges are buried forever, he will also ensure that his administration (from DOJ to the IRS) initiate a retribution against his perceived “enemies from within”. Once he has cleared himself of all charges and see his foes being punished, he will hand over the presidential reigns to his “loyal” sycophants he has strategically placed. I expect he will either concentrate on his golf swing, resign with some medical issue , leaving Vance to demolish the freedom & democracy of this country. Of course,Trump will ensure he still receives some of the corrupt “ bounty” his patrons & companies will offer for “work well done”.
Kamala Harris has avoided the word "fascist" until now. And now is when she planned to deploy it, I believe: the generals simply helped her do that
Bret "Bedbug" Stephens, despite being employed by Even The Liberal New York Times, is a craven right-wing apparatchik whose opinion is worthless. He should be mocked wherever he's quote, cited, or interviewed. Ask him wherever he goes and wherever he appears if he agrees with Trump's views on Hitler: did Hitler do some good things? Ask him over and over.
Do people forget that, last week, Trump called Harris a Communist, a Socialist and a Marxist? How is this overlooked but her calling him a Fascist is news? Let's be sure everyone who's shocked by her calling Trump a Fascist knows what Trump called her, first and often.
Teddy, politics, especially during a presidential run, is all about perception and timing. Harris’s timing was perfect, the word “fascism” & “authoritarian “ will be used all over the media & social platforms in the days heading to the November election.
The alarm bells are ringing. The highest ranked military officers are not hacks. They were in his administration. I’m so glad Harris weighed in and amplifies his unfitness. You are right Michelangelo - she needs to double down and keep the messaging of his unfitness loud and frequent for the next 11 days
Thank you Mike. This can't be said sufficiently loudly, or often. He would bring about a civil war in the United States, and God only knows the damage he would do to all of us within the wider American imperial orbit.
I’m the Granddaughter of 2 Polish Jews. My Father was born in Poland in 1930. My Grandmother, who had already became an American citizen, was visiting Family in Warsaw when she found out she was pregnant. She had my father, but soon after came back to the US. Both my grandparents lost many family members in the Holocaust. I know what Fascism is, and I have believed since 2015 that this was exactly who trump was. I listened to his words, I didn’t need any one to convince me of this fact. I never thought we would see someone like trump take over the Republican Party, but here we are. I will never forgive those republicans that allowed this to happen.
I think it isn’t that fascism&communist, as words, have been overused, I don’t think some ppl understand what those words mean.
GOP candidates call Democratic opponents communists while taking money from Putin? I don’t even know, is Russia seen as a communist country anymore?
Fascism in Trump’s case is total control, no more election, Stalin like retribution for those who question him.
While paying no taxes himself, he doesn’t want the government involved in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education etc.
Trump doesn’t care about infrastructure as long as his property is taken care of.
Let’s quit using polite phrases. Trump is a poorly educated person of limited intellect who wants absolute control over everything then to hand it over to the person he cherishes the most. Vladimir Putin.
Magacons (formerly known as republicans) call their opponents exactly what they themselves are. It's obvious that Drumpf and his lackeys are harmonious with Russia and are indeed Communist sympathizers.
I think Harris is setting the scene perfectly in the last two weeks of the campaign. Calling #TraitorTrump a Fascist is just the beginning, call him a TRAITOR, too! Campaigning in Texas with Beyonce and Willie Nelson next weekend could help, along with the Senate candidacy of Colin Allred, to flip the state back to Democrats just as it was in my youth. Maybe FL, too! People are tired of Fascists, and their lies and hate. The Big Blue Wave is coming, and no matter how much BS the mainstream media cranks out, they are gonna be caught in the flood of Democratic patriotism come November 6th.
Sharing your faith in Americans, that we will put country before party, as our Harris/Walz broad coalition helps us turn the page from almost a decade of Drumpf.
When we fight, we win!!!
If he wins, it will be a disaster for our country. The SCOTUS is in his pocket. He'll fire civil service workers and replace them with sycophants. His cabinet will include Musk and anyone else who gave him a lot of money. We MUST win.
Listening today. You have way more patience with these m'effers who call in thatn I do. F them.
Mike, you know when Tuck whines about daddy punishing and spanking… taking control.. This is an old fascist trick… hoisting up a father figure. Mussolini did the same, Vlad, Xi Un… all big father figures to take care of the country as only a father can. 🤮🤮
Kamala Harris not only answered the question, she was refreshingly direct “Yes, I do. Yes, I do.”
Hi Michael:
I've written this essay, and would like to get it out there as much as possible. If you have suggestions how and where to do this, please let me know. Marc
Most fascist regimes come to power through military means, like Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain, but it’s a coin toss as to whether on November 5th, like with Nazi Germany, America becomes a fascist dictatorship through constitutional means. Should this happen, all minorities will suffer, but it’s clear by Trump’s campaign ads and the rhetoric coming from his white Christian nationalist base, that there is a particularly cruel agenda waiting to reverse the progress LGBT Americans have gained over fifty years.
Hitler didn’t start out killing Jews. Despite endemic Jew-Hatred, the German public in 1933 would not have stood for such barbarism. But by 1940, after years of Nazi propaganda portraying Jews as “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood” of Germany, this dehumanizing language made the disappearance of their Jewish neighbors much more attractive.
Trump’s campaign against gay and trans people won’t start with such draconian measures as forced imprisonment of LGBT citizens. Few Americans outside of the ten percent considered white Christian nationalists would tolerate this. Trump’s anti-gay/trans crusade will begin more modestly, with nationwide bans on acknowledging the existence of gay and trans people in schools, banning Pride parades by calling them “pornographic,” criminalizing same-sex public displays of affection, and adoption of Putin’s laws making it a crime to display rainbow flags or to “promote homosexuality.”
While Hitler had his gangs of “Brownshirts” to terrorize Jews, trade unionists, homosexuals and other “undesirables,” in America Trump has his ‘Proud Boys’ “standing back and standing by.” They are eager to make life hell for gay and trans Americans beyond what Trump and Republicans do legislatively.
Violence and oppression will be hallmarks of a Trump dictatorship. He has promised that chasing down 20,000,000 undocumented children and adults will be “bloody,” and that he will imprison political opponents like Congressman Adam Schiff. As CBS is finding out, any network offending him will run the risk of having their broadcast license revoked. And if laws fail to keep gay and trans Americans invisible, Trump’s ‘Proud Boys’ militia will be there to bash some gay heads and scare LGBT Americans back into the closet.
Many other white Christian nationalist groups stand ready to help marginalize LGBT Americans as well. A member of ‘Moms for Liberty’ Miami has suggested gay and trans students be placed in separate classrooms, “like kids with autism and Down’s syndrome.” The ‘Fairfield (Ohio) County Conservatives’ has initiated a boycott of all businesses supportive of their local LGBT Pride, echoing the April 1, 1933 boycott of Jewish-owned stores in Germany, which marked the beginning of the Nazi Party’s nationwide campaign against the entire German Jewish population.
There are those who take comfort that a second Trump presidency will only last four years, but the reality is that he won’t leave office until he dies. This became clear when Trump declared, “If we don’t win this election, I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country,” projecting onto Democrats his own plans. Trump cannot imagine anyone giving up power once you have it. He tried holding onto power after losing in 2020, but patriotic Americans followed our Constitution and foiled his schemes. He’s already insured, in JD Vance, that this won’t happen again.
Within days America will choose whether we keep our 237 year-old ‘experiment’ as a democratic republic with Harris, or become a fascist dictatorship under Trump. We have one chance to get this right, but if we don’t, America’s LGBT population will be in peril. Our nation will become the same hellhole for our LGBT friends and loved ones as it is for gay and trans Russians, and like in Putin’s Russia, the wealthy few will be able to get out, but for everybody else, there will be no place to run.
Not only LGBT, but all others who do not look like, believe like him, cheat like him, felon like him, rape like him, grift like him, and, of course, fornicate like Trump--liberal whites, from republican Blacks to liberal Blacks unless they are gift worth, i.e., wealthy, brown-skin people, the McCarthy others (those news reporters, etc. who opposed him), yes the tent is huge! The tasks seem impossible but lots of violence and suffering along the way. The only exception may be Native Americans because this country has done an excellent job of disenfranchising them! One point seems to me to be clear: there is a greater metaphysical force that is illuminating and shining a bright floodlight distinguishing pro-democrat people and pro-fascist people in the USA.
RE HITLER'S GENERALS: Trump has no ethical or moral bottom; therefore it is not possible for him to be astute and careful. If he did, the thought of wanting his generals to be like Hitler's Generals brings into sharp focus, "Operation Valkyrie 1944... where officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in conjunction with General Friedrich Olbricht and General Ludwig Beck of the German general staff" used two bombs at the Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia (Cambridge University Library) to kill Trump's idol, Adolf Hilter. In my mind, this REAL attempted assassination would be equivalent to an assassination attempt at CAMP DAVID. Actually, Trump would be better off, if he was in his right mind, to have generals from Westpoint than those who met at East Prussia in 1944.
Kamala Harris will surround herself with intelligent and noble people. She will be AT the table. She will not be the table.
My great grandfather was a German military officer in WW1. He saw what was coming and in 1933, he sold everything they had left and along with his wife, my grandmother and her sister got on a boat for America. They had a sponsor in the German community in Buffalo NY. My grandmother rarely spoke of it, but my great Aunt became a nun after what she had seen in 1930s Germany. Trump=Hitler, without the brains, but he has plenty of intelligent, evil accomplices aiding his desire to be an autocrat.
As a sitting US Vice President and Presidential candidate she would be very remiss NOT to have warned us about the Fascism and Fascists in our midst. I am grateful to her for calling it out as it is.
IF Trump was to get back into the WH, his only personal “input” would be to ensure that all his federal charges are buried forever, he will also ensure that his administration (from DOJ to the IRS) initiate a retribution against his perceived “enemies from within”. Once he has cleared himself of all charges and see his foes being punished, he will hand over the presidential reigns to his “loyal” sycophants he has strategically placed. I expect he will either concentrate on his golf swing, resign with some medical issue , leaving Vance to demolish the freedom & democracy of this country. Of course,Trump will ensure he still receives some of the corrupt “ bounty” his patrons & companies will offer for “work well done”.
Kamala Harris has avoided the word "fascist" until now. And now is when she planned to deploy it, I believe: the generals simply helped her do that
Bret "Bedbug" Stephens, despite being employed by Even The Liberal New York Times, is a craven right-wing apparatchik whose opinion is worthless. He should be mocked wherever he's quote, cited, or interviewed. Ask him wherever he goes and wherever he appears if he agrees with Trump's views on Hitler: did Hitler do some good things? Ask him over and over.
Do people forget that, last week, Trump called Harris a Communist, a Socialist and a Marxist? How is this overlooked but her calling him a Fascist is news? Let's be sure everyone who's shocked by her calling Trump a Fascist knows what Trump called her, first and often.
Teddy, politics, especially during a presidential run, is all about perception and timing. Harris’s timing was perfect, the word “fascism” & “authoritarian “ will be used all over the media & social platforms in the days heading to the November election.
The alarm bells are ringing. The highest ranked military officers are not hacks. They were in his administration. I’m so glad Harris weighed in and amplifies his unfitness. You are right Michelangelo - she needs to double down and keep the messaging of his unfitness loud and frequent for the next 11 days
Thank you Mike. This can't be said sufficiently loudly, or often. He would bring about a civil war in the United States, and God only knows the damage he would do to all of us within the wider American imperial orbit.