Trump is Stranger than Fiction

[Mark Thibodeau]

Paxton's "Anatomy of Fascism" is must read material for these times.
He is the originator of a number of now key concepts in fascism
studies, and is a serious historical scholar.

I created a precis for the book a few years ago. If anyone is
interested in the contents of Paxton's tome, but doesn't have the time
to go out and buy a copy, then read a pretty dry historical analysis
of the roots, rise and fall of fascism in the early 20th century, drop
me a line and I will email it to you.

Cheers!
yer old pal Jerky

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:32 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pls excuse my spelling & grammar. "Hare" meant "have."
>
>
> On Thursday, November 10, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Grasping at unicorn tails, I agree.  But Trump's "charm" has a very short
>> shelf life.  He won by rage, but that game isn't sustainable.  God help us
>> as he tries to keep generating that anger, but it will grow old fast.  He
>> can't do stadium press conferences.  He is already shutting out the press.
>> And when all the yahoos that hare Obamacare but are alive because of it,
>> despite their glaring ignorance, find themselves falling into a pre-existing
>> graves, they might finally wake up.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Thursday, November 10, 2016, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> A somewhat anodyne prediction from my view.
>>>
>>> Robert Paxton, a renown scholar on fascism, has stated in an interview
>>> that: “Making the country great again” sounds exactly like the fascist
>>> movements. Concern about national decline, that was one of the most
>>> prominent emotional states evoked in fascist discourse, and Trump is using
>>> that full-blast, quite illegitimately, because the country isn’t in serious
>>> decline, but he’s able to persuade them that it is. That is a fascist
>>> stroke."
>>> (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/02/is_donald_trump_a_fascist_an_expert_on_fascism_weighs_in.html)
>>>
>>>      He will curry his cult of personality, but when he fails to undo the
>>> deindustrializatioin of the Rust Belt created by Reagan's policies in the
>>> 1980's (in fact his economic policies are likely to serve a small few and
>>> harm the broader economy) and the jobs do not materialize for the angry
>>> white masses -what will he do? We know - he will look for the enemy in those
>>> global banking elites (jews) and those that are not "true" americans. That's
>>> potentially anyone that is not Trump. He will be looking to keep his
>>> "movement" riled up until the next elections so that they can carry him over
>>> to the next four.
>>>
>>>   We are in a time of frail kings and leaders (May in the UK, Rajoy in
>>> Spain and Trump on his way in the US) and weak kings bouy themselves up in
>>> ways that Barak Obama never had to.s
>>>
>>> Winter will be long. Be strong my friends. Get out your Woody Guthrie
>>> albums.
>>>
>>> mc otis
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Prediction: in less than 2 years Trump will fuck things up so badly
>>>> that people will be outraged, and Congress will be turned over to Dems. Then
>>>> Trump will become a hugely unpopular lame duck, and will have all his vetoes
>>>> overturned for his last two years as Democrats undo all his damage.
>>>>
>>>> I wish...
>>>
>>>
>
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