In summary, fascists are right wing nationalistic militaristic law and order types who have no respect for the rule of law especially when it comes to holding fellow fascists accountable. Fascists constantly rail against liberals, socialists and democracy as well as religious and other minorities. Fascists whine that the free press is the “enemy of the people” because the press often criticizes their leader whom fascists believe can do no wrong since fascists believe that he and he alone can solve the country’s problems. Therefore, fascists have their own right wing networks spewing propaganda 24-7 on AM radio and other media similar to the Joseph Goebbels radio networks of the 1920s and 30s where they employ the Big Lie Technique by repeating lies and half-truths over and over again until folks believe the big lie rather than the whole truth.
The recent argument by President Trump’s lawyers before a federal Appeals Court that the President is immune from prosecution for any crime, including domestic political assassination, unless impeached and convicted in the Senate provides an example of how fascism intends to erode protections against its evil tyranny. It also demonstrates the duplicity of fascism since, during his second impeachment trial, the former president’s defenders argued that criminal prosecution was a more appropriate way to seek accountability once he left office. This is how fascism corrupts our constitutional institutions in order to weaken our democracy making it more vulnerable to fascist disinformation.
Fascists often portray democracy as a failed experiment, listing their perceived examples of democracy’s failures, suggesting a vague “change” while offering nothing concrete to replace democracy, therefore, and leaving open the suggestion of fascism. Fascists will use false equivalency, such as policies they disagree with or even lie about, and equate them with high crimes and treason such as violent insurrection or strong-arming foreign leaders and state election officials to lie about political opponents and election results. Whether still pretending that they’re fiscal conservatives or that Trump would have prevented Putin from invading Ukraine, they never explain exactly how.
Fascist loyalism, where everything serves the fascist dictatorship, is the opposite of American patriotism, which serves liberty, justice and democracy. Fascism often destroys the country in service to its leader as history demonstrates. It’s how fascism works.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – attributed to Benjamin Franklin
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