Chaos fascism
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Justinian in Chaos, Donald Trump, Roger Fitch Esq, US politics
Mobster rule ... Threats and blackmail ... Civil society on the edge ... Tariffs and crashing markets are one thing ... There are also attacks on the media, lawyers, universities, foreign students, and so-called "enemy aliens" ... Roger Fitch files from a traumatised Washington
"Trump himself has always been an anti-liberal revolutionary, an American Lenin for the rich and entitled. Trump doesn't believe in democracy, just in winning at all costs. He doesn't believe in limited government, but in the triumph of his will ... He is an authoritarian, lawless plutocrat who admires similar characters at home and abroad. And he views government as a machine for massive personal, family and clan advancement" - UK Prospect
"Their goal is to dismantle the central pillars of the United States of America - government, law, business, education, culture, and so on - because they believe the very shape of those institutions serves what they call 'the Left' [which] includes all Americans ... who believe the government has a role to play in regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, promoting infrastructure, and protecting civil rights and who support the institutional structures Americans have built since World War II" - Heather Cox Richardson
"Across human history, fascism has been imposed upon democracy mostly in one of two ways. First, by brute force ... Second, a bit more stealthily, and legally - through legislation, executive decrees, and court decisions that hand more power to the leader. Donald Trump is inventing a new way ... chaos fascism. Destroy the institutions of democracy until they're so disfigured or dysfunctional that a majority no longer cares about them" - New Republic
"With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn't experienced in some 150 years" - Mother Jones
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