Post ArBLsYLtLSIWBvjvUG by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ArBLsDrjVsI2ebTYhc by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
       2025-02-16T13:47:02Z
       
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       “He who saves his Country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump said yesterday.Two possible reactions:1) Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”2) Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.This is acutely dangerous.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArBLsFCgXSdynsHo00 by Nimbius666@comp.lain.la
       2025-02-16T16:50:29.500525Z
       
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       @tzimmer_history he's not wrong about the crisis of country in that late stage capitalism is giving away to neofeudalism at a break neck pace.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArBLsJT8gEBM2410CW by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
       2025-02-16T13:47:59Z
       
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       According to Trump and his supporters, only one man, one providential leader can guide the nation to its re-birth and former glory – “Only I,” Trump likes to say; he was “chosen by God” to save America, he said in his inaugural address. He means it. Those around him mean it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArBLsOHcmSwUxnfNRo by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
       2025-02-16T13:48:09Z
       
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       Trumpists regard any opposition to their project of national purification and re-birth as fundamentally illegitimate. It is dogma among Trump’s supporters that he as their leader embodies the will of the true people, the Volk. Trump is the tribune of “real America.”
       
 (DIR) Post #ArBLsTCqTf5gEQT8C0 by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
       2025-02-16T13:48:27Z
       
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       Calling this fascism offers no magic solution. But the idea that it is somehow ridiculous and beyond the pale to call Trumpism fascist relies on a naively dismissive view of Trump – and on ignoring the accelerating radicalization on the Right that has been happening around and in support of Trump.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArBLsYLtLSIWBvjvUG by tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
       2025-02-16T13:49:27Z
       
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       Trump is the fascistic leader of a far-right coalition that unites different shades of radical reaction and “counter-revolutionary” extremism.It’s unclear if they will succeed in destroying the constitutional order and ending democratic self-government. But they are undoubtedly trying.https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/donald-trump-american-fascist