• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    The American Right is a fascist party, inspired by the Nazis, it’s just simpler to call them nazis. It’s not about not liking them, they follow a platform nearly identical to that of the 1930s German Nazis. Many prominent members of their party have openly praised Nazis and other fascists and white supremacists. It is beyond the time to doubt this. Semantics are useless now, they have declared war against their enemies.

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      8 days ago

      Right wing populism is not fascist. They are not the same. They may share similarities in some instances, but they are not the same.

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        8 days ago

        I’m not saying they are the same, just that in the US a large portion of the right is fascist. One only needs to look at speechs by Republicans like Stephen Miller to hear their fascist rhetoric, they hardly try to obscure it in the mainstream anymore.

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          8 days ago

          But its not fascism. Its fascism-like, but its not actually fascism. The obvious dangers of calling out cunts like Miller for being fascist, is that he can easily hand wave it away which thus creates a history from him to say “See, they just call everyone a fascist.” even if/when he does go full mask off.

          If you want to call Stephen Miller anything, call him what he is. An Ethno-nationalist authoritarian populist with illiberal nativist and white-identity tendencies. It might not roll off the tongue, or get be an easily clickable buzzword for a karma farming reddit post. But its accurate as fuck, and he cant hand wave it away.

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            An Ethno-nationalist authoritarian populist with illiberal nativist and white-identity tendencies

            Can you tell me what makes this distinct from fascism? And it doesn’t matter what exactly you would call his brand of ethno-nationalism anyway, his views are racist and genocidal, in the same vein of Nazism and other far-right ideologies, and should be viewed as such.