Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    27 days ago

    I don’t think that word means much beyond “bad guy who wants to oppress you” to the average American today, although using it to describe a political opponent would have been outrageous just a few presidential elections ago. Trump has been using it for a while without any backlash.

    “Every time the radical left, Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,” Mr. Trump said in February, and not for the last time.

    Is there anyone whose mind isn’t already made up who will be swayed by the word “fascism”? That’s not a rhetorical question. So much of what I see from both parties sounds like preaching to the choir but I genuinely don’t know what they could say that wouldn’t sound like that.

    • P_P@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      27 days ago

      “Every time the radical left, Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,” Mr. Trump said in February, and not for the last time.

      Tell me you don’t know what any of those words mean without telling me you don’t know what any of those words means.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        27 days ago

        “Every time the bad guys indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,”

        That’s all it means to him and his audience. That clear it up?

        You’re putting thought into propaganda that requires no thought. Turn off your brain if you want to understand it.