That is fascist
One other unhappy information level about present politics.
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Saturday 25 November 2023
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By way of CNN, I will observe the next: Choose and lawyer in Trump’s civil fraud trial have acquired tons of of ‘severe and credible’ threats.
Since Oct. 3, when Trump posted a baseless allegation about Choose Arthur Engoron’s legislation clerk on social media, threats in opposition to the decide have “elevated exponentially” and had been additionally directed at his clerk, in line with Charles Hollon, a court docket officer captain in New York. to the Judicial Threats Evaluation unit of the Division of Public Security, who signed a sworn assertion.
Hollon stated the threats in opposition to the decide and his deputy “are believed to be severe and credible and never hypothetical or speculative.”
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Hollon stated Engoron’s paralegal has been receiving 20-30 calls a day to her private cellular phone and 30-50 messages every day on social media platforms and two private electronic mail addresses.
Every day, he stated, the decide and his employees obtain tons of of harassing and threatening cellphone calls, e-mails and voicemail messages, such that safety employees “continuously must re-evaluate and consider what safety protections should be put in place to make sure the protection of the decide and people round him.”
There’s little doubt that that is taking place as a result of Trump is purposefully and continuously attempting to excite his supporters. He is aware of what he is doing.
Making an attempt to mobilize mob violence in opposition to the federal authorities’s justice system is harmful, irresponsible, and let’s name it what it particularly is: fascist.
We see right here a number of traditional fascist components: the primacy of the chief, the sense of victimhood, the notion of us v. them, and the exultation of violence.
That random folks can take part in threatening calls will not be the primary problem right here. The principle drawback is {that a} former president searching for to grow to be president once more enormously incites such folks and habits on objective.
This brings to thoughts varied items of testimony from the January sixth hearings, comparable to the next:
Then President Donald Trump was pissed off that steel detectors had been stopping armed folks from coming into a rally of his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, in line with former White Home aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled that Trump demanded the steel detectors be eliminated , as a result of he believed within the crowd. was “not there to harm me.”
It additionally jogs my memory of the numerous instances Trump has celebrated violence. See examples on this submit, Radicalizing Rhetoric and this one from the late Doug Mataconis, Trump Praises Home Candidate for Assaulting Reporter.
We ignore, downplay, or recategorize all of this at our peril.
Extra on this subject from me:
I will even observe this submit from Kingdaddy: Fascism Is A Nationalist Aesthetic Motion.