Puppyroach said:
Well, I am a liberal, not socialist :). And I don't care if me calling him a xenophobic fascist gets people to flock around him, as long as I stand by my opinion instead of adjusting to peoples prejudice. A person who want to deport 11 million human beings, who want to ban people of a specific religion and make broad assumptions of Mexicans, is a xenophobic fascist. He can still claim that he want to ban Muslims because of the crisis in the middle east, but its still fascism and xenophobia. |
Fairly hyperbolic. Trump is a populist similar to a lot of politicians in modern Europe with a cult of personality of sorts, like Putin. His ideas are a mix of centre, right and even some left wing to american voters (making him closer to Kasich and early 00's Republicans than any other candidate). Calling him a fascist can be rebutted and is a easy way to be discredited as a critic of his persona. It was exactly this way that evoking comparisons to Hitler became a fallacy discredited by the entire political spectrum, not to mention it bellitled the tragedies that came from national socialism or real fascist regimes around the world.
And no, claiming you need to stand by your opinion doesn't exempt you. It's merely a cheap misdirection to dispense you from any logical discussion on the subject.
