@jeffjarvis For a decade at the local GOP meetings it was 'we aren't a democracy, we are a republic' until I eventually connected their phrase to why I was the only one telling swastika wavers to leave our protests and meetings. In was 14. Held onto the cult until escalator day. I said 'he's not my candidate' and my parents called me traitor. Idk, feels like media watchers are behind the times, as it were.

@jeffjarvis Two German sociologists wrote a book about "Demokratischer Faschismus" recently, arguing that historic fascism used the hate towards democracy to dismantle it, but today democracy is as well fascists' modus operandi as fascism is democrats temptation to get things done.
https://jacobin.de/artikel/demokratie-faschismus-oliver-nachtwey-carolin-amlinger

@jeffjarvis They were not, the evidence is right in the name. They called themselves socialists. This was to attract people in the 20s.

Pay attention to “left” organizations that work against their own interest by convincing people to throw their vote away. Its all happened before.

And here is the odious Niall Ferguson in the #MurdochJournal saluting the dictator: "Say what you like about Donald Trump, commanding comes naturally to him."
The Disrupter in Chief Gets Transformational Results at Home and Abroad
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-the-disrupter-in-chief-479da627?mod=wknd_pos1