What if there really were fascist shock-troopers and when people tried to express their outrage, anyone who wasn’t there says “whoa whoa, tone down the hyperbole”
There’s no real threat of fascism in America and people who use the term to characterize American politics are either ignorant or disingenuous or both.
I’d say Trump was definitely toeing the line. Taking all his actions as a whole
1) sending federal police to Portland and randomly kidnapping people
2) literally spewing lies every other word to the point you don’t know what’s real
3) wanting a military parade with tanks saluting him
4) inciting a mob to storm a democratically elected legislative assembly
5) expecting Supreme Court picks to be loyal to him specifically
6) undermining the integrity of an election which his own government and party often admitted was secure
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