Is Trump Leading Us To Fascism?

Saturday night I couldn’t find a good movie on DirecTV so I flipped over to one of the alt-right stations carrying Donald Trump’s rally in Michigan and actually managed to sit through 40 minutes or so of his speech. The media reported that people started walking out after 30 minutes, but I somehow held out.

If this performance is what we can expect from Trump if he finally announces a 2024 run, then all I can say is that he will do to the GOP what Barry Goldwater did to it in 1964, namely, removing the word ‘conservative’ out of the political lexicon for at least 12 years.

He started off with his usual rant about election ‘fraud’ even though Joe Biden is now almost going into the third year of his term. Hasn’t anyone told Trump that this whole fraud nonsense is just dead in the water with nobody other than Rudy Giuliani talking about it or caring about it any more?

Trump then moved onto an abortion rant and claimed that the Democrats not only wanted to kill the unborn, but would also kill them after they were born. I didn’t understand what he meant by that comment, but hasn’t he bothered to read the polls? A majority of GOP female voters happen to be pro-choice these days. What is Trump thinking about? (Hint: He stopped thinking a long time ago.)

What struck me most of all about Trump’s performance, if that’s what you want to call it, was the extreme anger, a continuous expression of hate which he voiced again and again against the ‘enemy,’ which was both the Democratic Party as…