Trump Fascism!!!

UPDATE-7/16: Well, this makes everything perfectly clear:

When asked if he was concerned that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups were finding common cause with the statement, Trump said Monday he wasn’t because “many people agree with me.”

“[They’re] complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave right now,” added Trump. “Come back if you want, don’t come back, it’s OK too. But if you’re not happy, you can leave.”

I wrote a blog post yesterday about a Trump appeaser who doesn't see him as a threat, and it appears I may have understated my point, and that's not a good thing. The one word I should have included over and over? Fascism. See if anything in the chart reminds you of a common Trump theme:

In my blog post yesterday I wrote...Rick Esenberg, the founder of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative-libertarian law firm ... became a willing partner in the Trumpian cultist movement to take down traitorous liberals. For instance, Esenberg's comments in the recent Isthmus ... saying (Trump's) "not a threat to the constitutional order". Seriously? 

1. “I don’t think Donald Trump is that serious about a lot of the things that he says ... And so, he tweets a lot of stupid classless and vulgar things, but it doesn’t really translate to any kind of action.”

Welcome to Trump Fascism: Trump's latest tweet storm posted this morning is probably the most incendiary call to action yet; the total vilification and proposed elimination of America's true enemies; everyone not a Trump cultists:

Heck, parade floats were onto this guy...

Fascist America is here: Explaining fascism is not easy, but the following contemporized look at Trump's reckless version of fascism shows us how real and threatening it is. From Vox, these are the articles main points made by Jason Stanley:    

The targets are leftists, minorities, labor unions, and anyone or any institution that isn’t glorified in the fascist narrative. We’re not on the brink of some fascist takeover. But there are reasons to be concerned, and we should always be on guard — that’s the lesson of history. 

Fascist politics would focus on the dominant cultural group. The goal is to make them feel like victims, to make them feel like they’ve lost something and that the thing they’ve lost has been taken from them by a specific enemy, usually some minority out-group This is why fascism flourishes in moments of great anxiety, because you can connect that anxiety with fake loss.

The story is typically that a once-great society has been destroyed by liberalism or feminism or cultural Marxism or whatever, and you make the dominant group feel angry and resentful about the loss of their status and power. Almost every manifestation of fascism mirrors this general narrative.

Truth is required to act freely. Freedom requires knowledge, you need to know what the world is and know what you’re doing. So, freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

Philosopher Hannah Arendt … she says that fascists are never content to merely lie; they must transform their lie into a new reality, and they must persuade people to believe in the unreality they’ve created. And if you get people to do that, you can convince them to do anything. 

Part of what fascist politics does is get people to disassociate from reality. You get them to sign on to this fantasy version of reality, usually a nationalist narrative about the decline of the country and the need for a strong leader to return it to greatness, and from then on their anchor isn’t the world around them — it’s the leader. 

The thing is, people willingly adopt the mythical past. Fascists are always telling a story about a glorious past that’s been lost, and they tap into this nostalgia. So when you fight back against fascism, you’ve got one hand tied behind your back, because the truth is messy and complex and the mythical story is always clear and compelling and entertaining. It’s hard to undercut that with facts.

My son provided me with the video below that didn't just explain fascism, but ANTIFA, the supposed freedom of expression movement on college campuses, and more: 

Victimized Trump "we won" thugs pushing around Starbucks employees with "Trumpcup" Protest.

The bizarre nationwide in-your-face Starbucks "Trumpcup" protest isn't just petty, but it's another mindless distraction that tells you all you need to know about Trump supporters and the conservative movement in general.

I also recognized this one during the campaign; Republicans wanted Trump to win so they could shove it in our faces. Period. These bad winners are everywhere; from standing on top of school lunch room tables declaring "we won" (my kids school), to calling up their life long friends saying Trump won and that they don't count anymore (that's what happened to me).

Watch the Starbucks "Trumpcup" campaign in action below, instigated by some of the biggest "victimized" as**oles the world will ever see:



Just hearing these Trumpian "victims" demand the names of Starbucks employees and managers like they would be added to some kind of database is frightening enough, but the fact that Trump himself has done nothing to tamp down these attacks is par for the course.

Here's one of the Starbucks "Trumpcup" instigators from Twitter, victimized "Baked Alaska," promoting the maniacal plan that includes posting more breathtakingly stupid videos like the ones above.

Baked Alaska: "They're going to freak out. They can't even write the name Trump on a Starbucks cup. How insane is this? Fascist scum, exactly. What's up fam."

Baked Alaska: "Come on, we have to stand up. The more people that do this, you know the more it normalizes people supporting Trump." 

Gee, I hope we can normalize those people supporting Trump.
    


Baked Alaska got a few things wrong. Trump won the election (we know, we know) but not the popular vote and did not win in a landslide:

Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead over president-elect Donald Trump has grown to more than 1.67 million votes, and it’s smashing records ... number 3 in all-time presidential popular vote totals in United States history, and her tally is still growing...

"Over half of the population?" That's if everybody old enough in America voted, which has never happened:

Baked Alaska said "They keep trying to call us white supremacists...!" Here's the picture on his Twitter page featuring the Alaskan landscape and...oh, look there's Pepe the Frog....:

Baked Alaska said "they have to write Trump on the cup." Nope:

Starbucks has responded to the protest by clarifying that it doesn't require its partners to write or call out names. "Over the years, writing customer names on cups and calling out their names has been a fun ritual in our stores," a Starbucks spokesperson said. "Rarely has it been abused or taken advantage of. We hope and trust that our customers will continue to honor that tradition."

 And what is it about Starbucks cups anyway? 

This all comes after the controversy that plagued Starbucks last year as it introduced a plain red holiday cup that was markedly different from Christmas cups in the past. Joshua Feuerstein, a former pastor, called the new cups a "war on Christmas" in a video posted to Facebook.

And this goes without saying:

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz was a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, but the #TrumpCup campaign against Starbucks is unusual in that it requires Trump supporters to go into the establishment they are protesting—and make a purchase.

Conservatives apparently found their voice in the "Trumpcup" protest, after unsuccessfully stirring up outrage over the green unity cup celebrating diversity: