Thom Hartmann: America Is at a Fascist Turning Point, and Only Totally Disempowering and Humiliating Trump Will Stop It
January 19, 2021
Trump has spent four years testing out a creeping fascism, which is still a grave threat to the US democracy, whether Trump continues to be the strongman or inevitably another Republican emerges (Ittmostt)
By Thom Hartmann
If Trump isn’t exposed as a weakling fraud, our country dies.
Battle lines are now drawn in neighborhoods, workplaces, and even families, as longtime relationships are torn apart over loyalty to America’s strongman fascist leader, Donald Trump.
The main key to fascism, the one element that shows up in fascist takeovers worldwide and has for a century, is the emergence of a strongman leader who uses age-old aspects of toxic masculinity to draw in and hold his mostly-male followers.
While the ground is typically laid by an economic crisis and political power vacuums, the strongman and his masculinity-based rhetoric and actions are key to the movement really taking off….
If Trump essentially gets off with a slap on the wrist, today’s American fascist movement will grow just like it did in Germany, and, in modern times, in more than a dozen countries around the world.
And that could well signal the end of the American experiment. The stakes have never been higher.
To read Hartmann’s full Medium commentary go to Thom Hartmann on Medium
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute
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