Trump looks fascist.
Donald Trump says, "Make America Great Again"
So does Mussolini:
I believe that Republicans have elected a fascist to
run in November. We had candidates leaning to fascism in the 1930s but no
actual fascist candidates ever won Republican primaries for president.
'Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.[7] Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as adictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.[7] Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation.[8][9][10][11] Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky through protectionist and interventionist economic policies.[12]'
FROM:Fascism
So Donald Trump is 1st. fascist.
Peter Thiel spoke at Trump’s Republican Coronation. He
spoke about gay rights but he looks fascist to me:
“There is a darker element in his thinking today. In an essay written in 2009 for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, he declared that he no longer believed that “freedom and democracy are compatible”, putting some of the blame for growing statism on the rise of welfare dependency and the enfranchisement of women. He added a grandiloquent coda: “The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism”. In a book, “Zero to One”, published in 2014, he pooh-poohed competition and celebrated the power of “creative monopolists” who add “entirely new categories of abundance to the world”. He is now not so much a libertarian as a corporate Nietzschean, who believes in the power of gifted entrepreneurs to change the world through the sheer force of will and intellect.”
MORE AT:
The Economist
The evolution of Mr Thiel
The tech billionaire has morphed from a libertarian into a corporate Nietzschean
Jun 4th 2016
I dono, maybe we're slowly sliding into fascism anyway. We have the militaristic part down. We have the surveillance of our citizens down. Our representatives represent whoever pays them the most. The same people run big business and big news media.
Maybe Trump is only putting wheels on our slide into fascism.
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