A gathering of fascists
By: Steve Schmidt
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Steve SchmidtJul 12, 2024291Share this postCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther117ShareAngela Major / WPR
The Republican National Convention is set to convene in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in under 100 hours. There, Donald Trump will join a small group of men who have been nominated three times for president of the United States by one of the two major parties.
The party of Trump is nothing like the party of Bush, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Garfield or Lincoln. The Trump Party is the MAGA movement, and it controls the Republican Party lock, stock and barrel. It is an occupied institution, held by a cause that disdains its purpose, leaders, history and roots.
The Republican Party retains a name, but has lost its identity because it has become utterly unmoored from Americanism. It rejects the US Constitution, the peaceful transition of power, election results, pluralism, women's rights and the separation of church and state. Trump is running on a platform of retribution and revenge with the claim that an American president is a Caesar.
The Trump campaign operation has become a ruthless operation run by highly competent professionals. The rest of the empire has retained its shambolic qualities, and nurtured an astonishing whack pack of creature cantina dwellers, hangers-on, weapons-grade weirdos, miscreants, petty criminals, the seriously accused, dishonest, dysfunctional and just plain wacky in the comfy environs of Mar-a-Lago, where Trump plays the music.
These people are Trump's vanguard, his Praetorian Guard of idiocy, dangerous extremism, religious nuttery and carefully planned power grabs. It is easy to laugh at them, but with power, the rest of us will have cause to fear them.
Donald Trump is a fascist.
His convention is a gathering of fascists.
They will claim a love of America, but they will embrace an un-American faith.
They will cheer for the collapse of the rule of law and fair elections.
They will venerate a cult leader who disdains them, and cares nothing for a single one of them.
They will celebrate an insurrection.
They will make threats.
They will divide Americans against one another on the basis of race and religion.
They will embrace dangerous religious charlatans and hustlers.
They will assault the dignity of gay Americans.
They will attack the concepts of dissent, free markets and liberty.
They will celebrate the worst dictators in the world.
They will deliver an exposition about radical extremism in an age of imbecility.
There must be a response to all of it.
My deepest hope is that we will hear one before it is too late.
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an age of imbecility
The truest comment in the entire comment I have seen in political commentary in the last few years.
You should know
Or is that you would know?
You are right because I see a lot of comments made by imbeciles in political commentary
Ya!
Exactly what I meant
Yeah, just yesterday he had a crowd cheering “lock him up” about his opponent,
sounds familiar
And when it was being shouted at Hillary it was considered imbecilic and it seems imbecilic now until the conviction in confirmed on appeal and sentence rendered by a judge.
But imbeciles are an important part of U.S. politics on both sides of the aisle aren't they?
The imbecility of hate filled unhinged name calling and fear mongering. I would suggest that Mr. Schmidt take a chill pill or a full dose of Miralax.
The author is another TDS driven mighty mental midget that doesn't know what a fascist is.
Even when one stares at him back in the mirror every day.
Schmidt partnered with a pedophile and we are suppose to trust his judgement?
Nope, I don’t think so.
This seed shows what helped contribute to the Saturday attempted assassination of Trump. The continued usage of calling Republicans fascists will only continue to move the needle along until attempted assassinations become the norm. We need to dial back the rhetoric but until the political leaders are forced to, this will continue. And how do we force them you one might ask? By people refusing to accept such rhetoric anymore.
I call on everybody on this forum to stop such rhetoric. We can agree to disagree, we can talk about policy. But we need to stop calling each other names.
Fat chance. At this point the hate is too deep seated in some folks. This place is the best empirical evidence of that.
Post like yours are evidence of the hate and hive minded drones and opinions vary
Once again, another post that helps prove the righteousness of the post being responded to.
Thx again ….
I can still have hope that some people will "listen to their better angels". But I'm also realist enough to know that for others, it's a bridge too far.
Yep, I have faith that it’s only “some folks” as noted.
This place is not a good barometer for that. More than a couple of those “some folks” here.