| haxxiy said: 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. |
Ofcourse he´s a populist, every politician who has radical views on society and is succesful is a populist that knows how to tap in to people´s desire for change in society. Sanders is a also a populist. But what makes a populist dangerous is when the proposals include hunting down huge amounts of people, playing on people´s extreme fears for dangers that do not exist or pushing an agenda to hate on people based on their nationality or religion.
And ofcourse he wouldn´t say he´s a fascist (I don´t think he believes that either) but the opinions he express are fascist and xenophobic. And those tragedies you speak of always occured when that radical populist got political power.
And the last part I don´t understand. Where did I say I needed exemption?
