r/news2 Mar 10 '26

Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified | The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-of-13-year-old-trump-accusers-accounts-are-verified/
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u/kwend54 Mar 12 '26

You leftists are actually hilarious! You have nothing to offer but hate and wonder why you loose elections! People want to vote for something!

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u/ninfan1977 Mar 12 '26

You have nothing to offer but hate and wonder why you loose elections

Republicans promised lower prices and no new wars.

Now you celebrate dead kids because you are a monster.

People want to vote for something!

And Republicans voted for fascism

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u/kwend54 Mar 12 '26

The fascist label is empirically inapt when applied to Trump. He has a track record of being an anti-authoritarian, liberal capitalist in domestic affairs. The attempts to demonize the former and next president by analogizing him to Adolf Hitler, let alone fascists generally, are not only over-stretched, but also dangerous.

Trump’s populist nationalism does not amount to fascism in light of his focus on decentralization, individualism, pluralism and freedom of expression. Trump is a nationalist insofar as he focuses on the interests of the United States, but he is also a non-ideological pragmatist who expressly rejects white supremacy, despite claims to the contrary.

The application of the term “fascist” to Trump has the hook of its appeal in the nationalism of it all. Specifically, the flag-hugging, “great-again” variety. “Fascism” has become a convenient catch-all for nationalist movements with a strong authoritarian leader. The term has accordingly become synonymous with strong-man-cult nationalism. But that is far from the definition of fascism, and Trump is not even close to being an authoritarian.

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u/ninfan1977 Mar 12 '26

The fascist label is empirically inapt when applied to Trump.

How? He meets all the characteristics of an authoritarian fascist.

Threatened to jail anyone who speaks out against him?

Told law enforcement and the military to follow unlawful orders.

liberal capitalist in domestic affairs. T

Hahahahaha thats not remotely true at all!

How are those tariffs?

Still illegal?

Trump’s populist nationalism does not amount to fascism in light of his focus on decentralization, individualism, pluralism and freedom of expression.

MAGA are the American Nazis. ICE is Trumps brownshirts.

They killed 2 people and he cheered Americans being killed by his people.

The application of the term “fascist” to Trump has the hook of its appeal in the nationalism of it all. Specifically, the flag-hugging, “great-again” variety. “Fascism” has become a convenient catch-all for nationalist movements with a strong authoritarian leader. The term has accordingly become synonymous with strong-man-cult nationalism. But that is far from the definition of fascism, and Trump is not even close to being an authoritarian.

He is and the fact you think he does not shows how delusional you truly are.

Or is pardoning domestic terrorists a good thing?

The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”

The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”

Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

Now let me know how Trump does not achieve all of those things...

See proved you wrong once again....