6 RW doozies this wk: Trump lets his fascist flag fly || Not who he is but who he hates

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Alternet


Janet Allon, AlterNet

Turns out The Donald and Kim Jong-un have a few things in common.

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It's Not Who He Is, It's Who He Hates: The Secret To Donald Trump's Toxic Appeal

Elias Isquith, Salon

Trump's brand of populist rage is rather free-floating.

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1. Notice the very

similar topical and speech pattern,Joe McCarthy ring a bell. Many here are not old enough to remember this hate filled person. Right out of the John Birch Society play book.

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2. Joe the finger-pointer was still fresh in political minds as I started school.

Once old enough to realize his travesties, in context, I found them extremely heinous so close to end of WWII and the fascists' labeling 'others' as an evil to be expunged. McCarthy was doing the same, only against 1 'enemy' -- at least until he gained enough influence. Who.d have been his next target?

Repubs, a few in particular, are following the same plan. It's thoroughly disgusting.

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3. Growing up in Wisconsin durring Tail Gunner Joe's

rein of terror,many of the Guy's who served with this Slug,became afraid of his personal attacks against them. Once the fear of Joe set in,no one would stand up and call him out. We see the same GOP tactic being used in every campaign. Human nature shows us we as a people condone Bullying more than trying to put a stop to it. Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes were the masters of this garbage during the Nixon and Raygun years only to be followed by Karl Rove during the Bush years. And today it is still Rove and Ailes that direct this type of behavior. It works plain and simple because the seed of resentment is being hammered into folks brain on a 24/7 basis by Fake Noise and other Right Wing Pundits.

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4. You got it.

Bullying starts early (look at how rampant among school kids), and trying to temper it threatens some because they fear it's part of ambition. Need to teach it doesn't have to be

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5. What I have seen in my 75 years is

Bulling tends to pass generations with in some families. Seen four Generations with some of our Relatives. And the sad part is their Great Grand Children are total ass Bullies and proud of it. Sick.

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6. Media ethics writer compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/poynter-compares-donald-trump-hitler-120361.html

..... Referencing the real estate mogul’s remarks on immigration and Mexico, the authors said Trump’s remarks might be perceived and reported differently if they were about another ethnicity.

“Such speech is a classic ploy to sow divisiveness and generate fear. That his message finds a home at all should be alarming. It’s one thing to argue about immigration policies. It’s a completely different thing to condemn an entire ethnic group. (Imagine if Trump were saying these things about Jews?),” they wrote.

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7. Donald Trump is an actual fascist: What his surging popularity says about the GOP base

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/25/donald_trump_is_an_actual_fascist_what_his_surging_popularity_says_about_the_gop_base/

........... In the political discussion of today, there always comes a risk of being discounted as a crackpot when using a word like “fascist” to describe a political opponent. The word, much like “socialist,” has been so abused since the fall of fascism that it lost its meaning quite some time ago. Comparisons of modern leaders to Hitler tend to be completely void of any substance, and there is even an Internet adage, “Godwin’s law,” that says, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

In a recent article by Jeffrey Tucker, however, it is argued, quite justly in my opinion, that Donald Trump, whether he knows it or not, is a fascist (or is at least acting like one). Much like Mussolini and Hitler, Trump is a demagogue dedicated to riling up the people (particularly conservatives) with race baiting, traditionalism and strongman tough talk — and, according to polls, it’s working — for now.