solarbird | Fascism Watch Catch-Up: Authoritarianism Edition (Reply)

What’s there to say?

Trump says some migrants are ‘not people’, and warns of ‘bloodbath’ if he loses. He means the former, he hopes for the latter. He said years ago that the way you get “real change” is when there’s riots in the streets, and he wants those riots.

Dictator Trump says he will give cops immunity to look at names and “take out” the “bad ones” (video). Remember: the oh-so-clever “trick” of being a “dictator” on “day one” means that you can make everything you do after day one “legal.” He’s promising to send red-state national guard forces into blue states to “round up” the “bad guys.” What do you think that will look like?

Trump asks for donations in ads that run next to Rumble videos that praise Hitler as a “hero”. They blame “algorithms.” Rumble is a specifically pro-Nazi video streaming platform. Fascism is what it’s for. If you’re advertising there at all, you want the Nazis on your side. (See also: Twitter, also now a fascist platform, hosting literal neo-Nazi organising workshops. This is what Twitter users fund with their continued usage of the platform. See also also: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism)

I mean, come on. Donald Trump had dinner with a Nazi. How is advertising to Nazis a reach?

Trump – and the MAGA GOP – love dictators like Putin and Orban. That meeting with Orban should be a red-alert end-of-campaign for him, but it’s not, because it’s what his backers want. I mean, the Russian imperialists – self-described, I note – love it, and look forward to Trump the the Republican Party abandoning Ukraine and handing a US ally over to them. (See also: Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP, and see also Russian propaganda painting Trump as an oppressed political enemy of the state. He absolutely eats that up, as we all know.)

This guy used to be my Federal Representative until he retired: Why an ex-congressman is living in a ‘safe house’ from Trump. And what happened in Arizona last month felt a lot like a little dress rehearsal.

Strongly agreed here: Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be: Many voters seem fooled that Trump 47 would be a bland replay of Trump 45, not the authoritarian nightmare he actually plans. Even as he takes credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, you’re seeing uninformed/low-information voters blaming it on Joe Biden, because he was president at the time.

For the love of the gods, get your people informed. Whoever they are. Get them informed. Because We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency isn’t the half of it.