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To: dschapin
Seriously if I had to pick a political philosophy for the Trump movement I would say that it is fascism for the following reasons.

Methinks you need to look up the word "Fascism"...

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html

96 posted on 08/25/2015 2:41:00 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

That is exactly the definition of fascism that I was thinking of. Trump is no stranger to using the power of government to advance his own business interests though the forcible seizure of others private property. He also is ruthless and very personal in attacking his political opponents. His supporters support him as a leader rather than his policies per se. And he is flirting with the blood and soil movement here in America.


192 posted on 08/25/2015 6:35:30 PM PDT by dschapin
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