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Archae

(46,335 posts) Tue Oct 1, 2019, 07:15 PM Oct 2019

Donald Trump is not a fascist.

Based on what he said today, congratulating China for 70 years of communist rule, and his kissing up to Kim Jong-Un, it's painfully obvious.

He's a Stalinist communist.

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Donald Trump is not a fascist. (Original Post) Archae Oct 2019 OP

Trump's politics are not so considered as to met the definition of fascist or communist. TomSlick Oct 2019 #1

TomSlick

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1. Trump's politics are not so considered as to met the definition of fascist or communist.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:13 PM

Oct 2019

Rather, he is simply a wanna be authoritarian. As a result he admires all authoritarians irrespective of where they land on the political spectrum.

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