I am @Allende | Rightoid Callout Post: @Healthy

I mean I'm not, but that was a good essay on fascism.

In any case, @Healthy provides this idiotic rebuttal. This is one of the stupidest comments ever made on rdrama.

>Obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood

[@Healthy provides an image of the Boston Massacre]

Impassionata restores sanity: The key word was "obsessive." The victimhood of the Boston Massacre was propagandized, but not to the obsessive degree Trump displays.

>Compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity

[@Healthy provides an image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence]

Impassionata restores sanity: People gathering in a room to reason about government and declare independence are not the same as a cult like that around Trump.

>Mass-based party of committed nationalists militants work in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites

[@Healthy provides an image of a statue of a minute-man]

Impassionata restores sanity: this one just misses the point of 'uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites.' To the extent that America glorifies violence, America does exist in a constant state of what Eco called 'ur-fascism,' a latent potential descent into fascism.

>Pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion

[@Healthy provides an image of a dude getting tarred and feathered in the Revolutionary War]

Impassionata restores sanity: Mob justice is not the same as state-sanctioned redemptive violence.

There's a lot of bad thinking going around rightoid world right now as they suffer the fact of the degradation of their leader. Too many years of playing "Hitler didn't play Golf, so Trump can't be a Fascist!" have broken their brains, perhaps permanently. Finding incidental similarities or differences between movements doesn't actually prove or disprove their fundamental nature.

Trumpism, fundamentally, is xenophobic and violent.