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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Laws require compliance and enforcement. Him being fascist and declaring it doesn’t make it the new rule. He’d need to send loyal soldiers to take over polling places for this to work. And there are a lot more polling places than he has brown shirts to take over and the public is agitated and motivated to stop it.

    Fascism isn’t a yes or no question. Nazi Germany still had agents of the state who would only follow the law (as defined by the “process”) and not simple dictates by Hitler. And Trump’s level of control is much much much smaller than Hitler’s. He can’t even pass votes in the legislature controlled by his own party.

    It’s useful to call out fascism in no uncertain terms when it’s used to wake up the sleepwalkers, but overstating its power out inevitability just seems to be encouraging surrender.