I'm saying that even if the right did that, the left would not, which removes incentive to do so. The fringe groups need to be suppressed. This includes the progressives. This stuff is not happening in a bubble. The narrative is controlled by the left, so the picture that is painted is that only the right fringe groups are rising. Everyone on the right can see that that's not true, but many people in the middle and the left are being duped by this myth. Or believing that the right fringe is worse. They are the same animal. Once politics is reduced to power only, what's the obvious conclusion?

I have really been studying fascism for a couple months now. Trump is not a fascist, but the conditions are ripe in America for the rise of fascism. The left knows this and is working to suppress it, but I don't believe it's pure benevolence on their part. Fascism was the natural response to communism in Europe leading up to WWII. The communists were making their move in Italy and Germany, using similar tactics to what we see now... burning national monuments, protesting, rioting, etc. Instead of accepting Communism, a global ideology that was attempting to destroy Italian culture to replace it with Marxist values, Mussolini banded together people who had had enough of socialists and created the resistance, which is the beginning of fascism. He used their patriotism and love of country to form a resistance group. The sad part is that both ideologies borrowed heavily from the same philosophers. Both are left wing ideologies.

The same thing is happening here. The right is moving rapidly left compared to it's previous position, and you are seeing fringe groups starting to form coalitions. Trump easily could have been a Mussolini type figure, except he wasn't. He just doesn't have it in him. He's inarticulate and doesn't really hold any strong beliefs about ideology. He's just a guy that picked up on the right's frustrations that the left is getting out of control. The left has to rein in their radicals and reject them. This has to happen first, because what you are seeing on the right is a response to the radical left.

Homebiscuit, The "left" and "right" are constantly pushing back and forth within an existing paradigm until one force gains enough momentum to change the paradigm. This happens over and over in history. To believe that we will remain in the same paradigm just because it's been that way in your lifetime is naïve. That said, I hope you are correct. I really do. I just don't think that's the case.

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