>Fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the “losers” who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment. The sociologist Émile Durkheim warned that the disenfranchisement of a class of people from the structures of society produced a state of “anomie”—a “condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals.” Those trapped in this “anomie,” he wrote, are easy prey to propaganda and emotionally driven mass movements. Hannah Arendt, echoing Durkheim, noted that “the chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships.”
>Paxton singles out the amorphous ideology characteristic of all fascist movements:
>Fascism rested not upon the truth of its doctrine but upon the leader’s mystical union with the historic destiny of his people, a notion related to romanticist ideas of national historic flowering and of individual artistic or spiritual genius, though fascism otherwise denied romanticism’s exaltation of unfettered personal creativity. The fascist leader wanted to bring his people into a higher realm of politics that they would experience sensually: the warmth of belonging to a race now fully aware of its identity, historic destiny, and power; the excitement of participating in a wave of shared feelings, and of sacrificing one’s petty concerns for the group’s good; and the thrill of domination.
>There is only one way left to blunt the yearning for fascism coalescing around Trump. It is to build, as fast as possible, movements or parties that declare war on corporate power, engage in sustained acts of civil disobedience and seek to reintegrate the disenfranchised—the “losers”—back into the economy and political life of the country. This movement will never come out of the Democratic Party. If Clinton prevails in the general election Trump may disappear, but the fascist sentiments will expand. Another Trump, perhaps more vile, will be vomited up from the bowels of the decayed political system. We are fighting for our political life. Tremendous damage has been done by corporate power and the college-educated elites to our capitalist democracy. The longer the elites, who oversaw this disemboweling of the country on behalf of corporations—who believe, as does CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, that however bad Trump would be for America he would at least be good for corporate profit—remain in charge, the worse it is going to get.
Carter Murphy
Trump’s Storm Troopers and the Possibility of American Fascism
> He may not be Hitler or Mussolini, but his campaign should have voters worried for the future.
>On Tuesday night, one of our two major political parties was captured—or rather consumed—by a bigoted quasi-fascist and fraud, a dangerously unstable demagogue. The consequences for America and the world—if he wins, of course, but maybe even if he loses—are unknowable and perhaps unimaginable. The degree to which, by changing the Republican Party, he will also permanently deform American politics can only be speculated upon, but his primary victory will, decades from now, likely be seen as one of the defining events of 21st-century America.
>And yet when people look back at Tuesday night’s results a generation from now, our larger cultural response—at least as seen through our television media—will seem incomprehensible. On TV Tuesday night, there was hardly a whimper. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox contented themselves with bright chatter about Ted Cruz’s hurt feelings, about Donald Trump’s political skill, about the feckless, pathetic Republican establishment. None of the commentators I saw mentioned the import of what was happening. Large chunks of the media have spent so long domesticating Trump that his victory no longer appeared momentous. He is the new normal.
>We have arrived. Teeming, huddled. We have arrived to the edge and our shadows are now cast over the precipice. We have arrived at the threshold of mass American fascism. It is a discriminatory ideology as well as a state of mind and we as a nation have collectively arrived at that grim station. Unmistakably, we have arrived as evidenced by the very fabric and sinews of the divisive policies and personalities of the presidential forerunners: Clinton and Trump.
>Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is under way. The US has decidedly moved to the Right, in fact the Ultra-Right; class differences are more pronounced than ever before, thanks to decades of neoliberal policies, the kind of capitalism that has concentrated the wealth in even fewer hands; racism is on the rise and the unmistakable signs of fascism are evident whenever Donald Trump holds a campaign rally.
>Not that Trump’s opponents are any less frightening in their rhetoric, but the man who has won 316 delegates in the Republican Party’s primaries has proven to be a liability to a party whose supporters are known for their overt racism and hate speech. Sure, there are many hurdles yet to be overcome, but Trump’s winning streak is already raising alarming questions about the future of the Republicans and the future politics of the entire country.
>The fear of the Trump phenomenon should not be confined to a discussion concerning politics, but understood as a reflection of a societal shift, whose roots are many, and are now all converging to steer US politics towards a whole new direction. Even if the Republicans lose the elections, the trend is likely to continue - if not accelerate - under a Hilary Clinton administration, who is loathed by the Republicans and also many Democrats.
>A few days ago, many people were shocked—shocked!—at a pair of new studies that found that many Americans have authoritarian tendencies. They want a strong leader, who can sort out “those” people. This went against everything we had lazily chosen to believe about America! But it’s also pretty apparent if you pay any attention at all to the headlines about police violence and the rise of a certain would-be strongman. And that makes it especially fascinating that this year’s two biggest superhero movies appear to be, at their root, about the seductive power of fascism.
Ayden Butler
>If, at the heart of Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, which is regularly compared to the politics of Nazi Germany, there is a coherent philosophy, it may well rest upon Mr. Trump’s constant allusion to the U.S. having become a “weak” and “scared” nation, indeed the reason why his campaign promises to “Make America Great Again.”
>Yet many wonder if this notion of an “angry America,” an essentially pejorative assessment of the grand strides made by the Obama administration after the Great Recession, could ever set the tone for a successful Trump presidency, terrifying as that prospect may seem to many Americans.
>In the past weeks, as the American polity – myself included – has finally come to terms with the fact that Donald Trump is not a flash in the pan, there have been a rash of “how did we get here” pieces. In the Times, David Brooks characterized Trump as the rise of an “anti-politics” and “anti-compromise” strain in our heretofore healthy American democracy. Vox’s Amanda Taub wrote an intriguing in-depth piece on Trump and the rise of American authoritarianism, with historical analysis that stretches back to World War II. And there have been many more where those came from. What a large percentage of these pieces have in common is the staunch belief that Trump’s rise runs counter to the American democratic tradition and today’s political establishment.
>Brooks, for example, talks about our politics as “an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, interests and opinions” and “try to find some way to balance or reconcile or compromise those interests”. He talks about the Constitution as a means “to help you reach these compromises in a way everybody considers legitimate.” To Brooks, and realistically, to most of the American people, the legacy of the founders is a politics that provides “a way of ruling divided societies without undue violence.”
>In this narrative, Trump and his ilk are outside of the American political mainstream and their desires are anathema to the vast majority of us trying to adhere to the American political model. As Secretary Clinton put it recently, “Donald Trump is not who we are.”
>But what if he is?
Parker Gray
>How Trump’s ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Is Bad for Other Men
>'Trump is championing traditional gender roles, and that means we’re likely to see a resurgence of them'
Let me know when we get to the GAS THE JEWS RACE WAR NOW!
Because Trump sure as shit isn't going to gas his fucking daughter and grandson.
Kayden Ross
>"If I keep calling Trump a fascist then it must be true!"
Pathetic, he sounds more like Politicians in the USA after World War 1 then he does the facsist parties in Italy or Germany
Joseph Russell
this. liberals seriously need to die, i legitimately hope he actually goes full on nazi and kills these fucks, i mean they are quite literally the cancer killing america.
Leo Perez
This. The real fascists are the diversity-quota enforcing, white hating, globalist fucktards who hate whites and western civilization and bring trivial non-issues to the forefront, while men, especially white men, are dealing with the potential extinction of their culture.
The overton window has been dragged so far to the left, that the appearance of a normal politician who says his country is his primary concern, is scary to them.
The really scary part is the intellectual tyranny involved in every single one of the posts of the OP. They keep trying to find a way to "explain the Trump phenomena". The one answer they won't accept, they can't accept, is that people actually agree with him.
They do the same thing with Islamic terrorists, and with Nazis, and with everyone else who displays different values from them. Rather than admit that OTHER IDEOLOGIES EVEN EXIST, they look for material explanations. Its because these people are poor, or frustrated or "excluded", they say to themselves.
It cannot be that illiberal sentiments are felt and believed as strongly and with arguments no less crafty than those of the current variant of liberalism, for that would imply we have genuine intellectual adversaries we need to address and compete against with methods other than shaming and silencing!
Surely. Surely they say to themselves! Its economical. Normal people. Liberal people. Good people. Love diversity and want to see their nation and culture raped by foreigners. After all, the self-hating liberal does, and he takes himself as indicative of all mankind!
Brandon Cruz
I like reading Chris Hedges...he is one of the few rational and relatively balanced progressives. Normally he has the ability to be somewhat objective and consistent with his criticisms.
I found this article to be over the top. It is wildly premature to call anything about this Trump phenomenon "fascist". Populist, yes, but fascist?
Secondly, he immediately proceeds to insult the working class in his article.
Overall a subpar article.
Mason Mitchell
>all these libs scared of a sudden fascist takeover >continue to overlook the creeping totalitarianism of Obama: continuation of Patriot Act and PRISM, NDAA, military assassinations of citizens, effective exiles of whistle-blowers, TPP, nonstop attempts at gungrabbing
>Arendt was born into a secular family of German Jews in Linden (now a part of Hanover)
Every. Single. Time.
Fuck off, kike.
Grayson Perez
If you really want to see fascism in action, there's a well-known group that goes by antifa.
Luke Parker
I fucking love reading these articles. I can just picture the balding 40 something faggots with their dead kennedys posters at their back sweating bullets while typing this shit.
Hudson Peterson
I would absolutely be a Trump Storm Trooper
Adrian Jackson
a storm trumper?
Isaiah Harris
strumper?
Henry Bailey
>After all, the self-hating liberal does, and he takes himself as indicative of all mankind!
And yet, this creature is hypocrisy in its purest form. They scream for multiculturalism, but all flock to expensive majority white neighborhoods. They claim to be free thinkers, yet attack anyone who strays from their ideology and get violent when they cannot suppress someone who disagrees with them. They're smug in the belief they're the most educated, and yet not 1 in 1000 can explain why "Trump is racist" should take precedence on the media 24/7 over Clinton's links to Goldman Saches, the Bilderburgs and the endless benefit she is to corporations that continue to abuse them.
Jacob Miller
neolibs and neocons are the same thing, a bunch of rootless cosmopolitans
they all must be "removed"
Aaron Richardson
Do any of these people know what fascism actually is?
Angel Anderson
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Landon Scott
Today, Lindbergh would be considered a fascist.
Easton Harris
>admits current political system is shit >is a decaying husk of corruption and indifference >admits clintons only care about power and their bottom line >admits elites fuck the people over for personal gain >thinks trump would be worse Why bother trying to save a political and economic system that has become a corrupt, grotesque caricature of its former self, let it burn. Something better will rise from the ashes.
Tyler Cruz
fascism=white people existing
Luke Cook
Liberals really are drama queens. They act like his ideas are so incredibly radical when there's plenty of precedence for them in our own modern history. No shit many people want somebody to put a halt to the effects of globalization that have been gutting the middle class for decades. That's hardly a fascistic demand. If anything, the economic displacement of the middle class has been far more radical than anything Trump has suggested.
Ayden Howard
>liberals were the open corporate shills who fucked over the middle class to appeal to the Job Creators(APAT) >NOT the right
Dat revisionist history
Cooper Scott
Daily reminder that there is nothing wrong with fascism.
OP article just wants a commie revolution instead of a fascist one Kind of feels like history repeating itself
Jaxson Parker
>anomie >anime Awwovement confirmed.
Aiden Walker
The only kind of revolution I want is [spoiler]Ron Paul[/spoiler]
Jason Butler
tl;dr
The rise of a Hitler is the fault of those who created the garden from which his movement flowers.
Tyler Bell
>blaming corporations, It's the fault of big government, marxist rat.
The left wing has a tangled web of government, public sector unions, military industrial complex, and government sponsored enterprises, that have sucked this country dry.
Corporations are not primarily responsible.
Christian Sanchez
>muh right wing
neocon kikes turned the Republican party into another arm of ZOG in the 80s.
Nathaniel Ward
One can only hope the might of Fascism returns to end leftism for once and for all.
Jordan Rodriguez
Kindergarten of Eden by Evan Sayet.
It explains this phenomenon. Liberals are like children stuck in kindergarten for their entire adult lives.
All of their solutions to problems involve sharing toys, longer nap times, and better snacks.
Anthony Rogers
>it's not wall street
KEK E K
Cameron Gomez
I hate this article in particular because it admits and raises many good points about the state of politics in general, and then wastes it all to label Trump as anti-rational, racists, etc. without any actual arguments in support of that belief.
It seems like it was written by a fairly intelligent/educated person who is either paid to shill against Trump, or has been totally blinded by partisan politics and fear. It's pretty saddening and seems representative of politics today.
Jayden Jackson
Aren't the cunts who try to suppress his privately funded events the fascists? Aren't the cunts who attempt to limit free speech and threaten to assassinate political members the fascists? Aren't the cunts who base their outrage on lies and misinformation the fascists? What the fuck is going on?
Ryder Jackson
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Brandon Edwards
Ouch, my head is hurting after reading that. Who the fuck said the banks had anything to do with those things?
Nolan Rogers
kikes realized they destroyed the white working class and are now trying to save face by crying about muh racism/transphobia
Grayson Sanders
They both are, stupid. But the liberal elite, who ostensibly represented the unions and blue collars, abandoned those people decades ago. All they talk about is political correctness and identity politics. They've joined hands with corporate power to push social agendas and in exchange have also supported things immensely damaging to the working class, including mass immigration and trade agreements. The opposition was turned into a passive cooperator by its own leaders.
Thomas Walker
STUMPER
Landon Nelson
why dont people just replace the word corporations with the word jews already i mean come on its pretty fucking obvious
Samuel Smith
that's the point
SJW fantasy identity politics exists to distract from economic reality.
Dominic Cox
>They both are, stupid. But the liberal elite, who ostensibly represented the unions and blue collars, abandoned those people decades ago. All they talk about is political correctness and identity politics.
watch libshits and leftypol deny this
Ryan Jones
History is repeating itself. Trump is Emperor Alexios come again. This will be the last, great hurrah of Western civilization.
Jonathan Edwards
because that's anti semitic goy
you might as well replace communist with jew as well.
John Evans
They're seeing the end hurdling towards them like a bullet train. It scares the shit out of them.
Henry Thompson
"America First!" is Fascism, goy. Now grab a rifle and march for Israel.
Liberals are getting me more excited about Trump than Sup Forums lately.
Luke Reyes
Good thread, agree with completely. Hypocrisy hypocrisy hypocrisy.
Although the tinfoil in me still wonders: is this just a planned swing of the pendulum? Was the real reason behind all this ridiculous leftist shit during the past half century just a primer to facilitate the plunge back into fascism? An even crazier fascism than we saw in the 20th century?
I'm not against Trump, and I'm not even really against fascism/nationalism. I think that when they're fueled by the wills and spirit of the people, it's the natural mode for our tribal species. But what if after Donald they segue into true NWO 1984 shit and turn on everyone? Isn't that the shadow elite's understood master plan?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I want to believe this is butter
Matthew Reyes
This is a misleading chart by virtue that Trump is listed second next to Hillary when he should be in the fifth and last slot where Bernie currently is
Bentley Walker
lmao Chris Hedges sued Obama you ignorant whiny faggot.
Landon Richardson
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Ryder Brooks
this is how its been since Sup Forums was /n/
trump is actually a step towards that
Juan Brooks
>every liberal is Chris Hedges
KEK E K
Chris Hedges is an anti neoliberal and an anti neocon that's unlike 99% of the modern Democrat/Republican party
he's such an outlier that he's totally irrelevant
Owen Harris
Libertarians support open borders, which means polluting the white gene pool with low IQ Mexicans.
Dominic Taylor
Ron Paul is a neolib shill
Joshua Wright
Tldr holy shit
John Kelly
Honduras actually worked out pretty well. One of her few successes.
Isaiah Lee
yes yes all of that hurts the working class more than them shipping good middle class low skill jobs overseas or the right constantly pushing for more rights for corporations over humans.
you keep on being distracted by stupid inconsequential shit. like faggots gettin hitched. that is a real fucking issue that effects every one and has real life consequences right?
Colton Powell
> >Fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the “losers” who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment
So various SJWs, feminists, blacks etc are "fascists". Isn't that what they claim? To be perpetual losers in the current establishment
Jaxon Williams
Ron Paul actively tried to fight against illegal immigration you retard
Gavin Gonzalez
One would have to wonder... If Trump really is outside of the establishment, and really a threat to it... It would stand to reason that he'd be killed by now, wouldn't it?
Camden Stewart
>American Fascism
What a time to be alive.
Xavier Green
Hilldog is a neocon, not a neolib. A neolib is indeed someone like Ron Paul.
Logan Brown
being against the welfare state is actually more based than a wall
building a wall turns the faucet off, but you are still giving fish food to the shitfish still here
which would not be a problem if all the shitfish were white
but they're not
Sebastian Campbell
Chris Hedges, Cornell West, Noam Chomsky and the like are the only leftists that matter. Hillary is not a "leftist"...
Xavier Lee
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Dominic Watson
forgot you maymay arrows
Hunter Sanchez
I will put this in my to-read pile. Thanks user
Brody Gomez
>The real fascists are the diversity-quota enforcing, white hating, globalist fucktards who hate whites and western civilization and bring trivial non-issues to the forefront, while men, especially white men, are dealing with the potential extinction of their culture. >fascism is any/all authoritarianism >fascism is anything I don't like kys
Leo Hughes
Trump hasn't said diddly squat about a shadow government conspiracy yet, but we all know what happened to the last presidential figure who started spouting that nonsense
Isaiah Davis
>Entire >30%
This is why we tried to teach you how to think critically, user.
What's the point of being against welfare when you shipped all the jobs to China?
Oh yeah I forgot Gnome "Israel is bad because it's a white supremacist state" Chomsky
It's funny how every leftist has to couch their criticism of obvious jewish tactics as "white supremacy"
Jace Jones
>surely dark money is pure and clean money gathered by many wonderful and giving individuals
Grayson James
>Émile Durkheim
Was doing alright until Émile Durkheim...
Sebastian Martinez
t. Shekelstein
Easton Rogers
Kennedy was a living legend and his death was a decline from which America never recovered.
Ryan Sanders
Trump is a populist not a fascist
not everything is in the extreme
Gabriel King
>Dark rallies >Dark banners >Dark commercials
What part of her campaign finance are you suspicious about? Why isn't Donald Trump attacking it if it has any merit?
Joseph Robinson
More of the leftist mantra, "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is Hitler."
Alexander Lee
>began Vietnam War escalation >failed Bay of Pigs
No one knows where PAC money comes from, dumbass.
Luke Walker
they come up with these excuses for why people think differently than them because they are ethical/moral determinists. they think given the correct upbringing that everyone would agree with them, because they are "right." it's just more hegalian bullshit.
Isaiah Jackson
When was Honduras ever not a mess? This is a serious question. Before or after US intervention. Before or after banana republic status. Before or after KGB intervention. At what point was Honduras ever a stable and safe country?
Jose Rivera
>Republican establishment is fascist >Trump is fascist >Republican establishment hates Trump >hurr ignore logic everything I feel hate towards is fascist
