In the guerrilla warfare against liberalisms institutions, the demagogue is always a tool of the fascist, and never the true fascist himself. Lenin. Stalin. Should Germany have prevailed, we might have found who Hitler’s true heir would have been. And it comes again … Trump. I promise you he’s just step one of the plan.
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“He is, after all, very stupid and very easy to control. And he’s ours. Good boy, Donald.”
LBJ, Nixon, the Bush family…..all the same.
None of these people served the fascists, actually. But Nixon was a cheap date, to be fair.
Liberal aristocracies can form, can be corrupt, and can run amok. But that doesn’t make them fascists. It’s why they’re haunted by their mistakes, and waste away painting dead soldiers. It’s not that it’s not a failure of liberalism. It’s just that, well, it maintained the pretense. That at least counted for something. These fascists … there’s no pretense.
“Liberal Aristocracies” are simply fronts for the real fascists who are in control.
I think you are wrong here. I don’t believe there has been a president since JFK that was not a useful idiot used by who you refer to as fascists.
They control both sides of the political spectrum, and allow their chosen useful idiot to run and then be elected, depending on the sentiment of the voting population.
Once in power, they manufacture a crisis that erodes the power of the liberal institutions that were/are the only thing that limits their power and complete control.
They have been working at this for 60 years, and I believe that they have reached the final stage, and no longer care to hide their intentions, because they control almost every facet of our lives.
Our liberal institutions were/are the only bulwark against this and they are crumbling. We are divided.
Pull the thread a bit further, what are steps 2-3?
I’ve come to see the Right as the systems way of introducing control systems for “good causes” aka The Patriot Act which then the Left uses to control and manipulate the levers of power. In that reality I could see a Trump presidency being used to usher controls that are later then abused to steal freedoms.
Close, but so slightly off, as to miss who the fascists actually are in this story.