It is possible to do an internet search for a date range. Looking at 2016, there were many articles regarding fascism and Trump. Here is just one:
forbes.com/…/yes-a-trump-presidency-would-bring-f…
It is true that many people were uncertain if Trump was a full on fascist, or if he was thwarted by a lack of reading. Which sounds like a lie. I am cherry picking this quote.
Do you think that Trump is consciously using fascist tropes, or do you think that he’s just sort of stumbled into this?
I doubt it’s conscious. I don’t think he’s a bookish man. I’m sure he’s never read a book about Hitler or Mussolini.
slate.com/…/is-donald-trump-a-fascist-an-expert-o…
MudMan@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I mean... yeah, but also I'm very well on the record disagreeing with that and calling Trump a fascist since day one. Not that I expect you dig through my online presence to corroborate it.
I'm not American. The presence of fascists in US politics has been a commonly accepted truth in anybody anywhere left of demochristians for half a century. This isn't "hindsigh", it's "I recommend always reading what people say about your country in foreign newspapers".
And for the record, we got fascists, too. We're just less shy about calling them that, maybe? Certainly don't have any delusions about ourselves in terms of being inoculated from fascism at a fundamental level. The idea that Americans would have survived Bush, let alone the overtly fascist Trump without noticing or acknowledging it seems outright bizarre to me, but there you go.
I mean, Stephen Miller isn't even shy about it. Even if you are the kind of European that would argue Berlusconi wasn't a fascist and could maaaaaybe entertain Trump is on that same level you surely would have had zero questions after hearing five minutes of Dracula Hitler back in 2016.
SARGE@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I am an American and idk where this idea comes from because I’ve been noticing a decline at least since high school political science forced me to pay attention for the first time. It’s been hard not to notice the slope getting steeper every day.