Thursday, September 18, 2025

Calling Fascism Fascism, Fairly

THE FASCIST TRUMP, his fascist administration, and his fascist supportrs are becoming more aggressive, pressing their attack. And no, it is not unfair, inaccurate, nor morally wrong to identify all the above as "facsist" because of the consistancey with which their words, deeds, policies and beliefs are conspicuously fascist, period. Kimmel and Cobert are both toast, victims of Trump's disease, fascism. Attack and destroy whatever media is critical of the authoritarian ruler. Eliminate public forms of dissent. Der Fuhrer appeared on social media, as he does daily, and announced that he and his fascist governemnt shall attack and destroy any and all liberal institutions and organizations, and, by implication, presumably the antire progressive community and liberalism in America generally. For the sake of its own survival, it is now time for the progressive movement in America to lash out against Trump with unprecedented ferocity and intensity, and to attack and destroy him and his movement by all moral and lawful means available, including with words in the media, with politics, facts, arguments, public discourse, all before, as Rommel said of Patton, he does the same to us. In yet another of his many acts which evinces sheer, unadultarated mental illness, Trump has formally designated, by executive order, a non existant fictitious organization, "ANTIFA" as a "terrorist organization". The acroynm "ANTIFA" means nothing other, of course, than "anti-fascist", and includes anybody who oppsoes fascism, ideologically. There is no organization, no leadership or centralized control, nor offical membership list to be ANTIFA". It is, in fact, a concept, an ideal, rather than anorganized entity. President Trump, oblivious to this like most conservatives, tilts at windmills, intent on destroying organizations which don't actually exist other than in theory, in the heart and mind of everyone aoopsed to fascism, as emorphous concepts. Trump, ever the bully, announced his intent of placing ANTIFA on some list of terrorist organizations. That's only legal if the organization is in another country,and,if it is proven to be such anorganization, and,mostof all,ifitactually exists. Trump, delusional as always, tilting at windmills. Ich bin ANTIFA. I am solidly, passionately opposed to fascism, anywhere, anytime, especially here in the U.S.. So are millions of other Americans. Now is the time for all of us to speak up and speak out, vociferously, because Trump, with presumably the full support of Congresss and MaGa, seeks to silence us, to silence all criticism directed at him. It would no longer be surprsing, at this point, if Trump signed an executive order making it illegal to criticize him, his administration and policies, and conservatism in general. Nor would it be surprising, so dire has the situation become, so disastrous the popularity and the threat of authoritarian fascism has become, to witness the Republican Congress, Republican state legislatures and governors, and the entire MAGA movement wholly support such an order and to seek to help Trump implement it. Any offers or suggestions to tone down the language and turn down the heat must not include promises by progressives to refrain from criticizing Trump, or from calling him and his policies "authoritarian" and "fascist", because that is precisely what they are. Likewise, people who support fascist politicians are fascists. To deny this is dishonest. The more Trump attacks and attempts to silence his critics and opponents, the more vocal they should and must become in their resistance to fascism, Trump, and MAGA, for the preservation of democracy and the destruction of fascism in the United States of America.

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