I think elites are attracted to Communism and Fascism as they are about totalitarian control, which they find attractive.
Donald Trump IS the elite. He is more the elite than any president in my living memory with the possible exception of George Bush Jnr. He's inherited his vast wealth from a phenomenally rich businessman father, who in turn was himself the beneficiary of an exceedingly rich father. He is backed by a huge range of the elites. He happily dumped the rich business elites into government or state roles: his own family and Jared Kushner? Anthony Scaramucci? Gordon Sondland? He's even now telling you that he'd like to offer a major government role to a guy who is (depending on share price) pretty much the richest man in the world. His VP is the scion of a load of mega-rich tech barons like Peter Thiel. His Project 2025 campaign and the wider Party was written in large part with the support of a think tank funded up the wazoo by billionaires.
Thus it's just insane for any Trump supporter to complain about "the elites". The only thing I'd grant is that the Democrats are to a large extent also in the pockets of the elites.
What you really mean by "communist" and "fascist" is "authoritarian". Again, I would draw your attention to Donald Trump open admiration and self-declared good relations with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un - remembering of course the latter two
lead actual communist parties. Or Viktor Orban, obviously authoritarian, who has openly supported illiberalism, and been vigorously feted not just by Trump but by the wider Republican party.
Trump stacked the Supreme Court. This is classic authoritarianism. Project 2025 - embedded into his campaign and plans despite his denials - involves a substantial part dedicated to amassing power in the hands of the president and reducing insitutional checks and balances. This is also classic authoritarianism. Trump and his staffers have announced they are going to set the DoJ on a bewildering range of opponents, officials and others. This is authoritarianism. Then there's his long campaign to overturn the 2020 election and deny democratic choice - very authoritarian. You can find all sorts of quotations from Trump 2017-2020 where he seems confused and frustrated that he can't just order things to happen because he thinks as president he should be allowed to do that rather than go through proper process. You just need to look at his conduct as a businessman, even down to his "You're fired!" catchphrase, all of which typify the sort of dictatorial power that a billionaire owner of a private company might have.
You may be right and maybe the elites are attracted to authoritarianism. But the apex of that inclination in US politics is...
Donald Trump. Given his overt authoritarian leanings and happy association with authoritarians, it is just bizarre to deploy it as an argument against Harris.
However, a lot of Americans actually
like authoritarianism... just so long as its the right type of authoritarianism. MAGA has a mile-wide streak of authoritarianism, that's why they love the idea of a crusading Donald Trump overturning democratic checks and balances and saying he'll wave magic executive power wands and just make things happen, rigging the Supreme Court and setting the DoJ on all their petty hates. MAGA love the idea of forcing teachers and academics to teach what MAGA thinks people should learn, muzzling any media to the left of Fox News, banning non-approved books, restricting transexuals and homosexuals, and on and on. Trump is talking about punishing companies for disobedience: "move production to the USA or I make your business unviable", presumably to the cheers of his supporters.
MAGA also talk a lot about freedom. What they mean is
their freedom, to do as they please and have society ordered as they want it, and all those other annoying opinions and beliefs locked away in a box out of public sight or punishable by law. In the 1930s lots of Germans, as long as they believed the same sorts of things as the Nazis, were free: because they weren't the undesirables that Nazis hated and didn't do the things Nazis proscribed they had the freedoms they wanted, and everything felt fine. That, to a large extent, is akin to the MAGA movement: authoritarian-inclined people supporting an authoritarian as president because he's not attacking any of
their cherished freedoms.
I think Kamala will be a continuation of the Biden regime. A weaponized justice system persecuting its political rivals...
You mean like Donald Trump has
explicitly and repeatedly insisted the DoJ under him will do? And it's not a new thing. When he was trying to persuade Zelenskyy to start an investigation into Biden in Ukraine, that might not have been the DoJ, but what do you think he was doing there? What do you think he was encouraging when he was getting crowds to chant "Lock her up" about Hillary Clinton? What about when he was telling the AG to investigate election fraud and raging at him for refusing when the AG said there was no evidence?
So is weaponising the DoJ a bad thing, or is it not?
Because if it's a bad thing, you should be telling Trump to shut his fucking trap, ensure the AG and DoJ is ringfenced from political interference.
Sheer hypocrisy.
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