...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
is becoming the "American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini" after Trump told members of the "Squad" to go back to their countries of origin even though three of them were born in the United States.
West called Trump a "fascist
...anybody who's not a leftist...Frankenstein" and said this is a "very historic and pivotal moment in the history of this nation" because "this democratic experiment" could "come to an end."
"We have to be clear, though. This is not just a matter of Trump as racist, and I was sad to see the Democratic Party couldn’t just call him a racist but say his words are racist. This is weak for me, but Donald Trump, brother Trump is at this moment becoming the American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini," West told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday evening. "Republicans, across the board, they have adjusted themselves to a profoundly unjust, proto-fascist way of being in the world in terms of being lawless, hiding and concealing, rationalizing this kind of unadulterated raw hatred."
Trump’s late mother reportedly asked one of his ex-wives, "What sort of son have I created?"
| Which one? Because Ivana still praises him to the skies, and nobody but her own daughter seems to like wife #2. Is there another ex-wife who somehow has managed to avoid the public eye? |
West said the country has had presidents who were slave holders, defenders of "American barbarism, called Jim Crow," and were "misogynists and homophobes and transphobes."
But he said "fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
is something else" because "fascism distracts the people, manipulates their emotions, gives them a sense of being a pure community that’s threatened by the impure, and he becomes the very agent that provides the rescue for those based on that fear."