On 1/6/21 7:58 PM, John Obrien wrote:
Some ignored on this List and stated "they saw no evidence of a
fascist threat".
Unless you're talking about something totally different than what
happened in Germany in 1932, that remains true.
Fascism, Trumpism, and the left
COUNTERPUNCH, OCTOBER 9, 2020
Ever since the 1964 election, liberals and many radicals have referred
to the Republican presidential candidate as a fascist threat. When
Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination, Democratic California Gov.
Pat Brown said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.” Those worries
continued through the Nixon years, abated somewhat under Bush ’41, then
waxed again under Bush ’43. Today, they loom larger than ever, with
Donald Trump’s outside chance of being re-elected in November.
Invoking the 1932 election in Germany, some leftists urge a vote for Joe
Biden to keep Trump from consolidating the fascist regime he began
constructing in 2016. While not mentioning the word fascism, a letter
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/23/open-letter-dump-trump-then-battle-biden> signed
by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West and 52 other notable
leftists insists that we vote for Biden, especially in swing states.
Chomsky probably spoke for the entire group when he told The Intercept:
“Failure to vote for Biden in this election in a swing state amounts
to voting for Trump. Takes one vote away from the opposition, same
as adding one vote to Trump. So, if you decide you want to vote for
the destruction of organized human life on Earth. . . then do it
openly. . . . But that’s the meaning of ‘Never Biden’”.
Even before Trump’s 2016 victory, Chomsky fixated on the threat fascism
posed. When Chris Hedges interviewed him in 2010, he compared the U.S.A.
to Weimar Germany: “It is very similar to late Weimar Germany. The
parallels are striking. There was also tremendous disillusionment with
the parliamentary system. The most striking fact about Weimar was not
that the Nazis managed to destroy the Social Democrats and the
Communists but that the traditional parties, the Conservative and
Liberal parties, were hated and disappeared. It left a vacuum which the
Nazis very cleverly and intelligently managed to take over.”
Continue reading
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/fascism-trumpism-and-the-left/>
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