When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross

https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/it-cant-happen-here-sinclair-lewis

by douchecoded • 11 months ago

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lostlogin• 11 months ago

Totalitarianism has some great designers.

Russian revolutionary Posters by David King has some other greats too - for balance.

https://www.davidkrutbookstores.com/books/russian-revolution...

Arainach6• 11 months ago

Editorial Note: I am a lifelong conservative Republican, ordained minister for 20+ years, voted for Trump twice. I'm not a Democrat or Liberal—I'm an American who remembers when we fought fascism. If I can see what he's doing, why can't you?

If you saw Trump's first term, saw the January 6 attack, saw the Project 2025 manifesto, and voted for him again, don't come looking for sympathy about fascism. The signs were all there and you voted for him a second time. This is on you, author of the article.

.....god, it keeps going. All of these signs were known well before you voted for him a second time.

How can rational people reconcile supporting a leader who has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, paid millions in civil settlements, built his fortune on casinos, and demonstrated a consistent pattern of dishonesty and cruelty?

paulbgd• 11 months ago

I'm going to guess they voted 2016 and 2020, prior to January 6th & Project 2025

xrd• 11 months ago

That's the only way this makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Arainach6• 11 months ago

A fair point that I hadn't considered. The second quote still consists entirely of things we knew in 2015 before the author voted for Trump a first time and comes across as disingenuous.

secretsatan• 11 months ago

I thought he bankrupted the casinos, he just inherited daddies money + real estate through an elaborate tax avoidance scheme.

orwin• 11 months ago

Trump has like 5 or 6 bankruptcies, but it's not a bad thing and pretty much on purpose. He extracted the value from the companies, saddled them with debts, declared bankruptcies and managed to make money from that. On that particular point, he is as competent as any business leader in the US.

slowhadoken9• 11 months ago

I’m a life long liberal but Republicans won the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Checks and balances exist they’re just wildly favoring conservatives. The DNC overplayed their hand by turning on Sanders, they’re continuing their pay for it. We’re suffering for the mistakes of 2010 Democrats. Liberals across the board have to accept that to better plan for the next election.

mingus88• 11 months ago

It goes much further than 2010’s mistakes.

Brazil arrested Bolsanaro for the same scheme Trump pulled. Imagine a world where we held people accountable for crimes in the US. Garland did nothing.

cmxch• 11 months ago

You’re lucky the US isn’t willing to replay the Chile playbook for that.

slowhadoken9• 11 months ago

Botched political maneuvers and rhetoric by the Democratic National Committee in the 2010’s directly lead to Trump getting elected. The Clintons played a big part in all of it. Christopher Hitchens warned the public about it for decades. Trump ran on Democrats being a laughable alternative to corrupt Republicans and it worked TWICE and it continues to work.

locopati2• 11 months ago

If checks & balances still existed, the Republican controlled Congress would have impeached Trump for any number of things, or the Republican controlled Supreme Court wouldn't have said it's not a crime if a Republican does it. We are beyond checks & balances at this point (unless a Democrat is elected... then I'm sure we'll see the Republicans suddenly care about rules & laws again).

slowhadoken9• 11 months ago

The burden of leadership has always existed. Biden shutdown the US during COVID. Some people argue the lockdowns were unconstitutional and abuse of power. Maybe. But it’s beside the point. Right or wrong, the US public VOTED for Republicans to take the House and Senate, that means US citizens wanted to see radical conservative reform. That’s what we’re witnessing. And I wish liberals would realize that, adjust their game accordingly and realign but they’re currently failing to do that with this kind of talk. Trump ran on Democrat hypocrisy and won twice. Think about it.

eviks2• 11 months ago

voted for Trump twice. I'm not a Democrat or Liberal—I'm an American who remembers when we fought fascism. If I can see what he's doing, why can't you?

I guess, for the same reason the author was blind this whole time before the revelation?

shazbotter7• 11 months ago

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today. Let people become allies and reconcile with why they took so long another time.

Arainach6• 11 months ago

I've given blanket forgiveness for anyone in my life who voted for Trump in 2016, but anyone who voted for him a second time after watching his hate-driven anti-competence regime the first time around is written off in my book. At that point we're back to "I didn't care until it hurt me personally" - a viewpoint Republicans take on so many issues (see also the Republicans who said "I guess not ALL homosexuals are evil" only after a close family member came out).

These people haven't changed and they'll still be off supporting hate and awful causes until they're directly burned, so it's not worth wasting time or energy on them and I'm certainly not obligated to forgive them.

eviks2• 11 months ago

That's a different issue, I was answering the question the author raised himself, but to your point - "another time" never comes

dkuntz2• 11 months ago

the author has shown himself not to be an ally in this piece.

johnea• 11 months ago

When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross

Doesn't it always?

mathiaspoint• 11 months ago

If the choices are fascism and communism I (and it looks like most other people) will always choose fascism.

Libertarianism was supposed to be a compromise but people were still allowed to be "fascist biggots" in their homes and the left couldn't handle that. That's why we're doing this now.

When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross

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