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Jilly_in_VA

(13,193 posts)
1. Sounds remarkably like Shitler and Project 2025's vision of America
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:40 AM
12 hrs ago

Get these guys out of my government!

haele

(14,689 posts)
12. True believers vs. Opportunists
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:57 PM
9 hrs ago

After all, can you really define what is MAGA other than a devotion to *rump and those who have his favor?
MAGA cult members will happily contradict themselves to enthusiastically stay in their bubble. Opportunists will mouth the words, but still go about doing their business as usual.
Most Tech Bros aren't MAGA, but they use the MAGA cult, just like the cynical rich corporate board members making decisions who know there's enough cult members to they can use to influence the general public.
Most MAGA movers and shakers don't care one way or another about the movement

SamKnause

(14,484 posts)
3. I don't need to watch the video. The answer is yes. MAGA is a fascist Christian Nationalist movement.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:53 AM
12 hrs ago

I refer to them as double cultist.

kentuck

(114,759 posts)
5. They are being led by "fascists" but are more of a "cult of personality" themselves.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:09 AM
12 hrs ago

They follow the teachings and advice of their Dear Leader.

peggysue2

(12,197 posts)
6. Spot on!
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:14 AM
12 hrs ago

Also a reason to call out what we're seeing and hearing for what it is--fascism. Despite JD Vance claiming the uptick in violent, lone wolf attacks being the result of leftists calling our this regime as fascism or disrespecting ICE with the label of Nazis, this is exactly what we need to continue to do.

As Will Bunch wrote this morning in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Words still not only matter, but have incredible power. What we are witnessing is American fascism. I am an anti-fascist.

As are most Americans. Call it out while we still can.

dwayneb

(1,060 posts)
7. Does not matter what word you use...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:17 AM
12 hrs ago

Fascist, authoritarian, autocracy, police state - it all comes down to MAGA and Trump getting their boot on your neck.

I would argue that Trump and MAGA are developing a Corporate State that will have an organization and methods very similar to the Mafia or a criminal syndicate. In many ways it is far more sophisticated that the Fascist regimes in Europe in the mid 20th century.

Hate and fear to shut up critics. Ownership of judges and courts. Full control of propaganda mouthpieces at all levels, broadcast media, streaming media and the Internet.

rampartd

(2,526 posts)
8. fascism seems to be a spectrum or process and we are certainly in that space.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:29 AM
12 hrs ago

i've been thinking of these people not as disciplined fascists, but as barbarians with no idea how civilization works.

they destroy civilization because they do not understand the alternative.

Midnight Writer

(24,836 posts)
11. We have seen these exact same techniques used over and over in our twentieth century history.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 12:22 PM
11 hrs ago

There is nothing new or even stealthy about what they are doing.

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