Comment on Open thread for night owls. Digby: the unprecedented nightmare of Donald Trump—he's actually fascist

Open thread for night owls. Digby: the unprecedented nightmare of Donald Trump—he's actually fascist

Heather Digby Parton writes The Unprecedented Nightmare of Donald Trump: He's Actually a Fascist: Over the past week or so, something unusual has happened in American politics: political figures, mainstream scholars and commentators are describing a leading contender for president of the United States as a fascist. Sure, people on barstools around the country have done this forever but it’s unprecedented to see such a thing on national television and in the pages of major newspapers. For instance, take a look at this piece by MJ Lee at CNN: [I]t it was after Trump started calling for stronger surveillance of Muslim-Americans in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks that a handful of conservatives ventured to call Trump’s rhetoric something much more dangerous: fascism. […] “Trump is a fascist.

 

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