Dropping the F Bomb

JOE BIDEN SEEMS to have removed the kid gloves, as they say. He's swinging from the heels, as it were. But at least he didn't call anybody a "fascist". That might have been construed as rude. Rather, he called a whole bunch of people, namely Trump supporters, "semi-fascists", if I'm not mistaken. And so of course they're all (all seventy five million of 'em, or however many there still are) quite upset, in fact livid, in what should be but really isn't an uncharacteristicalyy snowflakish posture on their (the MAGA mob) part. Poor darlings, with their injured feelings. snif snif. All they need do for revenge is to call American liberals "communists", if they haven't already, which they have, quite often. That oughta make 'em feel better... I'll double down, as we say nowadays. Fascism is a political movement in which a charismatic demagogue acquires a political cult following primarily among the working and middle classes, a following which as it grows entrusts more power to their leader, allowing him to become authoritarian, using as justification supposed enemies of the state, or enemies of the people, and the dire necessity of eliminationg them, which only the leader can do, but must have enough power. Our current demagogue is Donald Trump. When he fabricated his lie about winning the election instead of Biden he was behaving fascistically, inventing a false narrative which servers the interests of himself, his movement, and his followers, and his (Trump's) lie was embraced by nearly all his followers, a fascist movement was born, if it didn't already exist, which it did. To this day roughly seventy percent of registered Republicans believe Trump's election lie, believe that the Capitol insurrection was justified, and believe that political violence is sometimes necessary and justified, and may break out in America, if Trump is ever indicated for any alleged crimes. All this is fascism, pure and simple. It brings to mind the burning of the Reichstag, Kristallnacht, and the whole sordid NAZI experience. The current conservative attempt to remove all mention of gay culture or historical racism from school curricula, the censoring of books, all fascist. There are strong fascist overtones and undertones to not only the Trump MAGA mob, but, indeed, throughout the Republican party and its agenda, and, indeed, throughout conservative and evangelical conservative America. May the American right return to conservative values, and abandon its current fling with fascism.