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[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Mixed feelings on this, but when someone accepts racist arguments and repeats them uncritically…what are you supposed to call them?

For me, the association of MAGA with fascism has 2 key elements.

Fear of and blame on the “other”. Immigrants coming to take your jobs and commit crimes, and “queer commies” brainwashing your kids.

Return to a previous perceived greatness. Make America Great Again, it’s literally in the name.

Idk what to call MAGA except fascism. And people who support fascism are fascists.

Edit: Not to mention incorporating religion into government and control over people’s bodies, which are both things the Dems aren’t quite as fascy about.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Mixed feelings on this, but when someone accepts racist arguments and repeats them uncritically…what are you supposed to call them?

Well, prejudiced or racist always work.

Maybe I'm using the term wrong, but I always thought of fascism as specifically when a government (or group) carries out a campaign of suffering and death on a civilian population. So, when Trump talks about mass deportations, I'd consider that fascist (although I'm skeptical there's really the will, let alone the capacity, to actually attempt it). When he talks about Making America Great Again, that's just reactionary talk - it was better in the past, so we are re-enacting the past. Fascism often has reactionary elements, and reaction can be used to justify fascist actions, but they don't always show up together.