06-04-2019, 12:26 PM
(06-04-2019, 09:29 AM)GMDino Wrote: I've gone back and forth and now lean toward impeachment. Much like with Clinton there is enough to move forward whether you get the result of the Senate voting in favor or not.
Just my opinion.
Trump is praying they impeach him, it would almost cinch his second term on its own. There's a reason a canny operator like Pelosi is heavily resisting it.
(06-04-2019, 10:39 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I have typically seen it defined as a combination of nationalism and authoritarianism. He rose to the presidency relying on nationalism, and he certainly has authoritarian tendencies. He hasn't been able to completely fulfill those tendencies because of the guardrails of democracy holding him from it, but those guardrails have a lot of dents in them right now.
People hear fascism and all they think of is the end result. The fascist dictators that have made the history books. But those are the "success" stories. For every one of those, there are budding fascists that have tested democracies all over the world, and I truly believe Trump is one of those. There are a lot of people in the field of political science that see it this way, as well. Well respected scholars see proto-fascist tendencies within our country right now, scholars that have researched the rise and fall of democracies at the hands of fascists around the globe.
So people that dismiss the claims of fascism with Trump as easily as you are the ones that don't truly know fascism. The history, the trends, the rise of it around the world. It's more of a concern in this country than you realize.
I'm going to have to completely disagree here. Name a country with a long history of democratic government that eventually slid into fascism, or any other form of autocracy. The Framers sank the foundations deep on our form of government.
