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The Blue Flower

(5,446 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:29 AM Nov 2015

The Seattle Times clearly calls out Drumpf for what he is

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/donald-trumps-creeping-fascism-needs-to-be-rejected/

DONALD Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate is, in Trump parlance, a huge demagogue. Button-pushing lie after button-pushing lie, he diminishes the public sphere. It’s time for Trump’s fellow Republicans to speak truth to narcissism. Race-baiting and xenophobia, ignited by fabrication, reflect the worst in human nature. And Trump’s self-financed platform makes his rhetoric a menace to the social and political health of the nation.

Recent Trump-isms nearly trump earlier ones, including his insistence that the government of Mexico dumped rapists and murderers into the United States. After the Paris terrorist attacks, he said that he would implement a registry for Muslims. Trump was asked by a reporter how this approach would differ from Germany registering Jews in the 1930s. “You tell me,” Trump said.

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When assessing what Trump means, more people in public life should revive the question attorney Joseph Welch asked U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings: “Have you no sense of decency?” There is a bottom line, and it’s simple: Trump’s campaign message reflects a kind of creeping fascism. It needs to be rejected.
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The Seattle Times clearly calls out Drumpf for what he is (Original Post) The Blue Flower Nov 2015 OP
I take exception HereSince1628 Nov 2015 #1

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
1. I take exception
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:41 AM
Nov 2015

to the line that suggests this is merely 'a kind of creeping fascism'.

It may be 'creepy' but it's not creeping, it's being catapulted.

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