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On 10/13/18 1:12 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote:
This article is evidence for the building of a fascist mentality among large swaths of the population --- the one "silver lining" is that at least some of the people who attend these rallies concede to reporters that they 'don't like' everything he says ....
These people never had anybody to speak for them in the White House so this is something new. As I have stated frequently, I don't think there is a fascist threat in the USA fortunately because there is no revolutionary threat unfortunately.
But I have seen them my entire life on the left, from the racist mobs who attacked civil rights protestors in Cicero, Illinois in 1966 to the "Southies" who used violence to keep Boston's schools segregated in the 1970s. Or construction workers who beat up students protesting the killings at Kent State in 1970.
Trump is not stirring them up. They were stirred up all long. All you need to do is listen to the people who call in to WABC radio. If Donald Trump declared himself the American Fuhrer, they'd be giddy with excitement, like fans of a baseball team that just won the World Series.
However, that is not in the cards. If you studied the first year or two of Hitler's regime, it will be clear that his measures were intended to liquidate the German left that numbered in the millions. Imagine the ISO and the DSA having 2 or 3 million numbers in 1930 and some of their members leading the trade unions that were challenging the government in a time when German capitalism had little wiggle room. Well, maybe the ISO is not equivalent to the German CP of the Weimar Republic. Probably better to analogize the ultraleft German CP with Robert Avakian's cult. Just imagine if there were a million people following Avakian blindly in the USA. No wonder Hitler had an easy job creating a totalitarian state.
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