The illegitimate equation of fascists with leftists

Dancing With the Devil

by Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz

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  Yesterday 4:35 pm
  
  Take Away Trump’s Blank Check for Endless War
  You can also write a letter to the editor to demand the removal of Confederate statues, and join a campaign to take economic power from Wall Street and give it back to communities.
  NationAction
  
  
  Yesterday 3:24 pm
  
  Why Mike Pence Is Worse Than Donald Trump
  In every way, he knows better, but he says and does things that are equally awful and offensive.
  Joan Walsh
  
  
  Yesterday 2:45 pm
  
  A Key Member of Congress Has Had Enough—and Calls for Trump’s Impeachment
  “It is morally and legally incumbent upon me, based on my oath of office, to introduce articles of impeachment."
  John Nichols
  
  
  August 21, 2017
  
  Why Steve Bannon Calls White Supremacists ‘Clowns’ and ‘Losers’
  Bannon says he is leaving the White House to go to war for Trump.
  Jon Wiener
  
  
  August 21, 2017
  
  Durham Residents Turned Out En Masse to Counter White Supremacists
  The fear was that Klansmen would come to replicate the violence that had just racked Charlottesville.
  Barry Yeoman
  
  
  August 18, 2017
  
  Keep the Blame Where It Belongs
  In the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, too many media outlets used headlines that implied that both sides were at fault.
  Leslie Savan
  
  
  August 18, 2017
  
  The Stain Steve Bannon Put on Donald Trump’s Presidency Cannot Be Washed Away
  The White House chief strategist has had a profound influence on Trump and, tragically for America, that influence will linger.
  John Nichols
  
  
  August 18, 2017
  
  Trump’s White House Is Turning a Blind Eye to White-Supremacist Terrorism
  Right-wing extremists are behind numerous incidents of domestic terror, but the government has opted to ignore the threat.
  David Neiwert
  
  
  August 17, 2017
  
  White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner
  Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf.
  Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
  
  
  August 16, 2017
  
  Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump
  The historian and author explains how racism is part of the Trump family DNA.
  Jon Wiener

Trump’s fascist America

Rethinking 1984 and Brave New World
by Henry A. Giroux
Monthly Review, Volume 69, Issue 01 (May 2017)

Trump’s ascendancy in U.S. politics has made visible a plague of deep seated civic illiteracy, a corrupt political system, and a contempt for reason that has been decades in the making; it also points to the withering of civic attachments, the decline of public life, and the use of violence and fear to shock and numb everyday people. Galvanizing his base of true-believers in post-election rallies, the country witnesses how politics is transformed into a spectacle of fear, divisions, and disinformation. Under President Trump the scourge of twentieth-century fascism has returned as neo-fascism, not only in the menacing plague of populist rallies, fear-mongering, hate, and humiliation, but also in an emboldened culture of war, militarization, and violence that looms over society like a rising storm.

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