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Home Front: Politix
Tax Payer funded National Public Radio (NPR) interview compares President Donald Trump to Mussolini
2020-09-08
[Breitbart] National Public Radio (NPR) conducted an interview on Sunday comparing President Donald Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and tied the president to the kind of conspiracy theories that led to the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.

Tax-payer-funded NPR also implied that former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush also embraced similar fascist ideology:
Historians have noted similarities between Donald Trump and Mussolini since before the 2016 election. Some of the racial justice protesters this summer have said they are fighting fascism in the form of President Trump. And the presence of antifa — anti-fascist — protesters at some demonstrations has upped attention to the word.

But what is and isn’t fascist isn’t even agreed upon by scholars.

Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University, offers one perspective on the word. He defines fascism as "a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation."

Stanley, who is the author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, was asked on NPR’s All Things Considered about how Trump stacks up today compared to his 2018 assessment. Stanley replied:
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University

I stopped reading right there.
Posted by: Clem   2020-09-08 18:26  

#7  #1 Defund. Now.

The time for that was when the GOP "controlled" both Houses with Trump in the White House.

Be sure to thank Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for their yeoman efforts in preserving taxpayer-funded leftist agitprop.
Posted by: charger   2020-09-08 18:13  

#6  Defund now, you say? Defund now and send them a back bill for decades of reflexive treachery and treason.

Oh, snowflake you might want to reconsider your 'fight against fascism' when it begins to center around angry mobs accosting innocents and demanding they repeat your oh so interesting slogan and respond with your salute. That and get some farking Hugo Boss for G-d's sake.
Posted by: Cesare   2020-09-08 16:16  

#5  Authoritarianism is Not a Fascism. It's the reverse!
Posted by: magpie   2020-09-08 12:50  

#4  ^ Everybody's a Comedian, or, Mickey Who?
Posted by: Winky Poodle9282   2020-09-08 07:37  

#3  Pronouncement from Amna Nawaz:
A frown, and an ominous pause.
Wouldn't do to be flip
As she slipped you the drip
That'll put you to sleep for the cause.
Posted by: Winky Poodle9282   2020-09-08 07:32  

#2  Fascism is an outgrowth of socialism. But to these people, it doesn't matter. It just means "I hate you" to them.

History of fascism and how Mussolini founded it.
Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230   2020-09-08 04:33  

#1  Defund. Now.
Posted by: Clamp Chereger5764   2020-09-08 01:34  

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