He is loved by white supremacists everywhere. He is one.
Trump hires white nationalists to work in the White House, he calls neo-nazis “very fine people,” he is a hatemonger, he vilifies migrants and other minorities and has done so since before he entered the white house. He is loved by white supremacists everywhere. He quite shamelessly stokes fear and puts forward that these views of hatred towards other demonstrate that he is in fact the true democrat. Sigh.
There is evidence of a potential slide into full blown fascism, not just in the USA, after all we are witness to a new rise in 'strongmen' of illiberal states using lies and propaganda to stay in power across the world.
How far will Trump take it though? We know that fascism is a form of exclusive identity politics and any fascistic state has to have a military dimension. All that goose stepping is very important to the fascist dictator. Would the actual military side with Trump in a descent into totalitarianism? I can’t see it. However, do they need to? – does Trump have an ‘armed militia’ in his base that would support any scramble away from democracy?
As history has shown, a takeover by fascists of the state never works. It may be messy and violent but ultimately it ends in failure. Trumps administration would do well to heed the messages of history.
