(01-15-2021, 12:49 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(01-15-2021, 12:27 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Some of what you said there is true.  

Something you left out of that history is that the fascists in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s made great use of a huge lie that was going around a sizeable portion of the German populace at the time.  They adopted it, they promoted it, and they leveraged it to gain power.  And that big lie was, that they weren't losing when WW1 ended.  The big lie was that they were actually winning WW1 when they were "sold out" and stabbed in the back by Jews and communists in the government.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

Trumpism is doing a similar thing right now, with their own big lie, and that is, that Trump didn't lose the election, that the other side cheated.  

Another similarity is that apparently a lot of the more extreme Trump supporters would love to have an open battle, shooting and all, with the left.  We read and see it constantly.  It comes from right wing militias, "Proud Boys," and white nationalists, who would love nothing better than to provoke open warfare in the streets.   That's would be just like late 1920s and early 1930s Germany, with the fascists fighting street battles with the communists.    


I don't think it's going to happen here yet, but there are some echoes of 1920s Germany here in the US.  What really led to the rise of the Nazis in Germany was the Great Depression.  If we have a massive economic failure here, brought about by the pandemic and seemingly unlimited government spending, we could see a real rise in fascism here.  There was incredible inflation in Weimar Germany.  Over the last 4 years under Trump, we have seen a huge increase in the national debt, and there is a lot of speculation that that could lead to a lot of inflation in the US in the future.  

Overall, I don't think Trumpism = fascism, because we don't have to conditions here in the US for the rise of fascist movement, yet.  Trumpism smells like fascism, with the national savior myth, the strong man, the nationalism, and racism, but as some have correctly pointed out to me, it doesn't really meet the definition of fascism.

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