I Was Wrong: Trump Is a Fascist.
As my readers are well aware, I have published many comments over the past several years challenging the liberal cant about Donald Trump being some kind of fascist whose re-election would pose a serious threat to our democratic practices and beliefs.
My argument in this respect was based on a knowledge of fascist movements which actually did result in the transformation of previously democratic political systems (Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Chile, et. al.,) into authoritarian regimes, a fundamental change which in every single instance occurred through the application of massive, armed force, employing either a semi-official military-like organization (ex., Hitler’s S.A or Mussolini’s Black Shirts) or the country’s actual armed forces executing a coup d’état (Greece or Chile.)
Whatever the Select Committee was able to prove in its investigation of January 6th, the one thing the Committee was unable to prove was that the shitheads who rampaged through the Capitol on January 6th were under the direct or even the indirect control or orders of Donald Trump.
Furthermore, the first thing which every fascist leader did after taking command of the central executive authority was to disband or otherwise immobilize the representative organs of government, i.e., the legislative branch, and then to render the legal system and the courts…