Theres No Other Way to Say It: Trumps Arpaio Pardon Is Fascist

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THE F-WORD
There’s No Other Way to Say It: Trump’s Arpaio Pardon Is Fascist
To the cheers of a mob, the president pardoned and praised a man who defied the rule of law in order to target a racial minority.
Jay Michaelson
08.26.17 9:56 PM ET


The Trump presidency has been the most shocking and awful in modern American history, with the president threatening nuclear war, saying that “fine people” march alongside Nazis, implementing a “Muslim ban.”

But Trump’s pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio is the worst, most dangerous, and most terrifying of all his antics.

Not only because it is an endorsement of Arpaio’s racism and birtherism, not only because it was done without any of the appropriate processes and procedures, but first and foremost because it is a direct assault on the rule of law itself. I haven’t used the word before, and I hesitate to use it now, but Trump’s action is fascist.

Here’s why: Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court in July, in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt. It was never contested that he targeted people based on race and jailed them (in inhuman conditions) if they were suspected of being undocumented immigrants. Fortunately, we live in a country of laws, not men, and so in 2011, a court ordered him to stop doing so.

Arpaio ignored the court order. He decided he was above the law, and went on with his racist and blatantly unconstitutional actions. And he bragged about it. One cannot imagine a clearer case of contempt of court than this.

This is what Trump pardoned at 8 p.m. Friday night, as a hurricane bore down on Texas, without the usual review from the Department of Justice, and shortly after a terrifying Phoenix, Arizona rally in which a crowd cheered when Trump said Arpaio was “doing his job.”

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1. Take this travesty to the next level.

You have white supremacists harm or kill counter-protesters. They are arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced.

Trump pardons them and they return to reeking havoc. In other words, they are legitimized and continue to grow in numbers. More than militias. We're talking about real armies. And they won't recede into the background post-Trump.

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2. Trump, is fostering his armies to endure. He wants more than the presidency, and congress sits on

their butts.

[sharedvalues]

3. How about the R-word: racist

Because it's that too.

[rock]

4. Hitler

Need I say more. (I thought that because this is rhetorical, that a period, not a question mark, was needed.)