I'm going to start a post about fascism because I tire of non experts with zero time spent looking into it, learning history, or referencing experts telling us we call everything fascist or Hitler. It's the same irritant as your hair spray queens or beer guzzlers overriding experts with their 5 second expert tiktok opinion.
1) When you come into office on coat strings of nazis you might be a nazi. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism#.grEVqB2aa
2) When you relabel nazis as "conservative voices" who just want to "preserve history" where only history ever under threat was accurate history about nazis.. you might be a nazi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrcB1sAN8I
3) When one of the leaders behind your meme disinformation propaganda war happens to be the preppy leader of nazis in the US... you might be a nazi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN8w7lUMc1o
4) When you take time away from all of the important things in the world to threaten a university if they don't host your neonazi connected troll.. you might be a nazi. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-uc-berkeley-milo-yiannopoulos-234530
5) When the ANN FRANK MUSEUM calls your ass out publicly and compares to Nazi Germany.. you might be a nazi. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/345856-anne-frank-center-compares-trump-era-to-pre-holocaust-germany
6) When you adopt the name of a historically nazi aligned group that even Dr Seuss called nazi.. you might be a nazi. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/dr-seuss-protest-icon/515031/
7) When you appoint proud Vitézi Rend pin wearing far right immigrants on video tape supporting violent racist antisemitic militias that were outlawed in Hungary to your administration and have them lead your Dr Seuss condemned movement from WWII you might be a nazi https://forward.com/news/366181/exclusive-nazi-allied-group-claims-top-trump-aide-sebastian-gorka-as-sworn/
8) When your Maga and Qanon followers regularly spread racism and blood libel without immediate condemnation .. you might be a nazi. https://newrepublic.com/article/159529/qanon-blood-libel-satanic-panic
9) When Nazi Germany and Holocaust historians start posting and writing books about you comparing you .. you might be a nazi. Christopher Robert Browning is an American historian and expert on Holocaust and Nazi Germany who the United States Holocaust museum has a page just for him listing him as an expert. And this isn't his first or only comment on this. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/25/2279503/-It-Can-Happen-Here
10) Let's give Maga benefit of the doubt that the Ann Frank museum and Browning know nothing or were wrong. Well now you have Robert Owen Paxton an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era calling you a fascist.. you might be one. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/24/2279331/-Is-Trump-a-fascist-In-NY-Times-interview-historian-Robert-Paxton-says-Yes
11) Let's give them a break and assume Ann Frank Museum, Browning, and Paxton are wrong. What if Timothy David Snyder an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust saw similarities between you and earlier fascists... you might be one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6RTYzkjSS4
12) when you try go cut funding of United States Holocaust museum then appoint new members to the museum because you didn't like the USHMM calling your ass out.. you might be a jerk and a nazi. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-holocaust-memorial-museum-alarmed-alt-right-richard-spencer-donald-trump-steve-bannon-a7431741.html
13) When you host a party with Ye and Nick Fuentes... you might be a nazi. Although Ye is pretty dumb to be trying to hang with nazis. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/story-trumps-explosive-dinner-ye-nick-fuentes-rcna59010
14) when you or your aides keep dining with vdare, stormfront, or similar people... you know what they say about about people dining with nazis... you might be one. [sorry it's wapost] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-adviser-larry-kudlow-hosted-publisher-of-white-nationalists-at-his-home/2018/08/21/f418a76c-a55e-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html
15) When you and white hate groups you or your aides dine with share the same enemies.. it's not certain.. but it's not a good look. https://www.newsweek.com/peter-brimelow-vdare-blames-letitia-james-1929349
16) When nazis approve of your adviser picks [and there are a ton of examples of this I'm picking one so do your own research]... you might be one. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trumps-newest-senior-adviser-seen-ally-white-nationalists/
17) Here's Prof. Jason Stanley aka Jacob Urowsky who has written books about fascism and propaganda.. if he's thinking you're a little fashy .. you might be. "Jason Stanley Warns: "America Is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase" " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkcCmdE1u4
18) when our generals think you are fashy.. you might be. "James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/
19) When you start talking about good genes or "poisoning blood .. you might be a nazi. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-says-there-are-a-lot-bad-genes-among-migrants-us-2024-10-07/
20) Robert Jones. CEO of PRRI from the organization’s inception in 2009 to 2022. Before founding PRRI, he worked as a consultant and senior research fellow at several think tanks in Washington, D.C., and was an assistant professor of religious studies at Missouri State University. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213746885/trump-vermin-hitler-immigration-authoritarian-republican-primary
21) references to WWII while playing it coy or dumb. And the forward is missing some. There were other retweets of white hate accounts, dog whistles, and eagles that looked more nazi than US. https://forward.com/fast-forward/615880/donald-trump-hitler-nazi-references/
22) Adding to my oddly nested dumpster pile. When your South African billionaire turning twitter into stormfront and who has a large wn incel fan club is using Fraktur for his WWII nazi America First movement cap... it COULD be coincidental but probably not.
@AnnetteTRemain this thread is fantastic! I wish I could "unroll" it.
@AnnetteTRemain though I think that one of the surest signs that Trump only "feels" and doesn't understand any of these ideologies is that he calls Kamala and the Dems fascists and communists at the same time.
@hallmarc I've argued with white supremacists on twitter before who played the redefining of labels game. They think it's funny.
@hallmarc I think that's deliberate and he got some of that from the far right that try to reassure their idiots that "dems is da real nazis". Even though they know they're racist, antisemitic, homophobic, etc.