Coordinated attack on Trump calling him 'fascist' by Bush, Rubio, Cruz, Kasich surrogates

[randomname]

three rival campaign advisors/supporters --Boot (Rubio), Noonan (Bush), Deace (Cruz) calling Trump fascist. Also, Kasich: https://newrepublic.com/article/124560/trump-wins

 

[Gage]

Please let all these Super PACs with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars attack Trump so bad these last few months.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Oh, they will. Most of this is being funded by the GOP establishment, so they can get one of their boys like Rubio in first place.

 

[CaptUSA]

three rival campaign advisors/supporters --Boot (Rubio), Noonan (Bush), Deace (Cruz) calling Trump fascist. Also, Kasich: https://newrepublic.com/article/124560/trump-wins

Well... They're not wrong. As long as nobody really examines their own policies, I suppose this could work for them.



(BTW, did that linked article really try to compare Trump to Goldwater?!)

 

[randomname]

Ryan Cooper piles on in The Week:

made the case just a couple months back that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is a sort of fledgling Mussolini, nurturing an incipient fascist movement. As the first primaries approach, and Trump's lead in the polls is actually widening, his development toward outright fascism is progressing faster than I feared.

As of August, Trump had most of the ingredients for a fascist movement: the victim complex, the fervent nationalism, the obsession with national purity and cleansing purges, and the cult of personality. He was missing the organized violence, a left-wing challenge strong enough to push traditional conservative elites into his camp, support for wars of aggression, and a full-bore attack on democracy itself. He's made much progress on all but the last one.

It's clear now that the Paris attacks enormously energized the Trumpist movement. He's now speculating openly about invading Syria. Trump's proposals have gone from overt prejudice to things literally taken out of late Weimar history — closure of mosques and a national Muslim database. The rank-and-file have both fed off and stoked this behavior. When a lone protester started chanting "black lives matter" at a Trump rally, Trumpists jumped him (he was luckily not badly injured). Trump later said, "Maybe he should have been roughed up." Hours later he lied about witnessing Muslim crowds celebrating 9/11, and retweeted nonsense racist garbage from a literal neo-Nazi.

Conditions are clearly fertile to start organizing a Trumpist paramilitary wing, a key fascist institution. A pack of heavily armed white nationalist militants recently popped up at a mosque in Irving, Texas, announcing their intention to intimidate local Muslims. Trump's personal security squad is already made up of goons, assaulting people and threatening reporters. With an incomprehensible number of guns floating around the country, all Trump needs is a Röhm to get the organizing started — except probably with Carhartts and camouflage instead of imitation military uniforms. (After that, watch for the next step: starting fights at Bernie Sanders rallies.)

The attacks also increased Trump's effective elite support. Many mainstream reporters have been working hard to normalize Trumpist ideas by attacking their colleagues for "unfair" treatment of Trump (like seeing what sort of Nazi ideas he'll disagree with). CNN's editorial practices are basically overt anti-Muslim bigotry. Other reporters, like Chris Cillizza, shrug and argue that refugee-baiting is simply smart politics. As Carl Diggler explained, "it would be a death sentence for any candidate to abandon these voters by coming out against the pogroms and race war they fervently want."

However, conservative elites are still pretty suspicious of Trump. Barring a recession (gulp), he probably would not do well in a general election, and so most conservative elites seem to be hoping that Marco Rubio will eventually consolidate the anti-Trump Republican vote to challenge Hillary Clinton. But should Trump win, and I see absolutely no reason at this point to think he is not the tentative favorite, things could change quickly. Should Clinton win the nomination, her milquetoast, status quo platform will be quickly internalized on the right as a devious plot to destroy (white) America. I would thus wager that most of the elite conservative power structure would back Trump versus Clinton if they each secure the nomination.

That brings us to Trump himself. As the pseudonymous blogger Billmon observes, Trump has instinctively discovered the Joe McCarthy sweet spot for maximum attention and momentum. It is pitifully easy to roll the mainstream media with a constant stream of insane, racist bile. Outlets are either too cowardly to call a spade a spade, or are simply wrong-footed by Gish Gallop tactics. Left-leaning media, meanwhile, has no purchase in the fever swamps. And conservative media, clearly taken aback at Trump's massive success with conservative base voters, are largely reduced to either studiously ignoring him, validating parts of his arguments, or howling about "illiberal" college students as a distraction.

Trump was writing pro-Obama blog posts in 2009. He is pretty clearly in this for the self-aggrandizement and ego trip, not because he's wants to achieve anything in particular. That's likely why he has not yet attacked the fundamental idea of a democratic electoral system (the last major missing fascist ingredient) — it simply hasn't occurred to him yet.

Yet the seeds he is sowing are poisonous indeed. Violent white nationalism has not been so effectively mainstreamed since the 1920s. If Trump wins the nomination and the economy turns down next year, I'd give him a decent chance of victory. Even if he is only a sort of "fascist idiot savant" without much true organizing ability or program, he clearly has a good instinct for the basic psychological impulses underlying previous fascist success. It's time to start taking this seriously.

 

[CPUd]

Pretty much the same article at CNN:

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"What they expect from the media is praise. This is another element in this character and in other leaders of this type, which is that they are extremely messianic and narcissistic," said Finchelstein. "Whatever they see, they see as a personal attack against them."

History professor Robert Paxton of Columbia University, who has studied the rise and spread of fascism, said he would not call Trump a fascist. But Paxton also said he can understand why some people might be inclined to point out similarities between Trump and fascist leaders.

"He's good at making astonishing speeches that make people sit up and take notice. So there's some of that manipulation of public emotions that is visible with Trump," Paxton said. "Hitler and Mussolini -- no one had ever seen public rallies like the meetings they'd have. People were absolutely mesmerized."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/politics/donald-trump-fascism/index.html

 

[hells_unicorn]

Here we go, time for the carnage to commence. Hopefully Trump hits back hard so all of these jerks can sink each other.

 

[jkob]

Trump will get them to back off by threatening 3rd party run, he has the GOP by the balls

 

[LatinsforPaul]

 

[jmdrake]

But...but...but...Trump actually is a fascist! His support of imminent domain for the benefit of private developers is classic economic fascism! Benito Mussolini said fascism is corporatism. Trump is a corporatist. Is there anyone here actually questioning that fact?

 

[William Tell]

So..... does that mean Cruz has taken the gloves off? Or is he just letting his guys do his work?

And I don't see anything about Deace in the article.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Call Trump an oligarch, it seems, to me, like a much better fit with American history. How about another option, call him a "robber baron"?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

maybe trump running 3rd party and WINNING is what this country needs.. if nothing else to get people out of the thinking that nobody but the 2 parties can win..


im voting for rand in the primary of course

 

[William Tell]

3rd party candidates never turn out to be hardcore tyrants. We have observed this in Europe....




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[Ronin Truth]

Of course, there is also this too:

Published on Oct 13, 2015

The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs Ebook PDF

Click http://bit.ly/1Pe5pi3

Author: Jim Marrs

Publish: 2009-10-13

Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government—The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about American power. In this explosive new book, the legendary Jim Marrs, author of the underground bestseller Rule by Secrecy, reveals the frighteningly real possibility that today the United States is becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of an ideology thought to have been vanquished more than a half century ago. This concept may seem absurd to those who cannot see past the rose-colored spin, hype, and disinformation poured out daily by the media conglomerates—most of which are owned by the very same families and corporations who supported the Nazis before World War II. But as Marrs precisely explains, National Socialism never died, but rather its hideous philosophy is alive and active in modern America. Unfortunately, most people cannot understand the shadowy links between fascism and corporate power, the military, and our elected leaders. While the United States helped defeat the Germans in World War II, we failed to defeat the Nazis. At the end of the war, ranking Nazis, along with their young and fanatical protégés, used the loot of Europe to create corporate front companies in many countries, including the United States of America. Utilizing their stolen wealth, men with Nazi backgrounds and mentalities wormed their way into corporate America, slowly buying up and consolidating companies into giant multinational conglomerates. Many thousands of other Nazis came to the United States under classified programs such as Project Paperclip. They brought with them miraculous weapon technology that helped win the space race but they also brought their insidious Nazi philosophy within our borders. This ideology based on the authoritarian premise that the end justifies the means—including unprovoked wars of aggression and curtailment of individual liberties—has gained an iron hold in the "land of the free and the home of the brave." For the first time Jim Marrs has gathered compelling evidence that an effort has been underway for the past sixty years to bring a form of National Socialism to modern America, creating in essence a modern empire—or "Fourth Reich"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3AxFhwykq8

 

[kahless]

maybe trump running 3rd party and WINNING is what this country needs.. if nothing else to get people out of the thinking that nobody but the 2 parties can win..

We certainly do need a viable 3rd party. I am just not sure how that will work if the news media and Hollywood are solely behind the Democrats. You may end up with 50% D, 25% R, 25% 3rd party.

There would need to be a combined news channel and wire distribution service to counter the current crop of news channels and AP.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Pompous Trump is beating the ****bags gang of professional politicians at their own game and naturally their feelings are hurt.

 

[Ronin Truth]

TPTB strongly prefers that their divide and rule schema be a quasi managed controlled duopoly.

 

[CPUd]

So..... does that mean Cruz has taken the gloves off? Or is he just letting his guys do his work?

And I don't see anything about Deace in the article.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

TPTB strongly prefers that their divide and rule schema be a quasi managed controlled duopoly.

O, it is...

...don't worry.

Who do you think Trump's working for?