It’s not much of a” closing debate”. In reality, it’s weak and pathetic.  ,
Many Americans are having severe issues with Donald Trump. Many people will also cast ballots for him. Many others wo n’t.
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However, there is no evidence that the electorate will accept or reject Trump based on the Political claim that he is a fascist.  ,
There’s simply no” there”, there. But also a great poet like Will Saletan has swallowed the” Trump is a nazi” kool-aid.
” Let’s Be Honest, Trump’s Running When a Fascist”, writes Saletan in The Bulwark. The author lists 18 (yes, 18 ) reasons why Trump is a fascist.
Saletan fails to explain how Trump will proceed when he flees at the mouth and claims to “indemnify” the officers against any legal action taken as part of his designed mass deportations. Does Saletan assume that a leader is omniscient? Does he think that Trump’s executive order to deport 11 million illegal immigrants wo n’t face legal challenges?
Saletan, like many who refer to Trump as a “fascist”, has absolutely no faith in America, her citizens, or the rules. Trump frequently talks about being “immune” from the law and about using the police or the defense against “enemies within,” but he never goes into detail about how that would happen.  ,
And neither does Saletan.
Because Democrats refer to Donald Trump as a fascist, the issue with using the “fascist” brand as a political attack is that very few people have changed their views on him.
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, who is not exactly a Trump cheerleader, defines fascism as being for the illiterate Democrats who had to bend it to make a hazy social point.
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Fascism historically was “national socialism “—government power over much of the business. By that description, Democrats today are the federal socialists —using regulation, demands, law enforcement, and trillions of dollars in grants to compel Americans to pursue their demands on environment and lifestyle. In his first term, Mr. Trump vowed to deregulate and will do so in a minute.
Ms. Harris is making many of Mr. Trump’s comments on Fox next Sunday that” we have some very poor people. We have some sick individuals, extreme left maniacs. And I think they’re the—and it should be very easily handled by—if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military, because they ca n’t let that happen”.
Although it was a commonly grand and self-defeating statement, Mr. Trump made it clear after some meandering that he was talking about devastationous riots when we asked about it on Thursday in an interview. He said he’d “certainly not]use power ] against my opponents—it’s against legal unrest”.
It’s not just Trump bombast that does n’t translate into anything remotely resembling “fascism”. The full legal government apparatus would be stacked against him. This machine was created with the sole intention of preventing someone from carrying out the Saletan and the Democrats ‘ claims that Trump wants to do.
Even if Mr. Trump does n’t mean this, he’d have to face the obstacles built into the American system. His own judicial nominees refuted his claims that the election was a fraud, and Republicans inside and outside his presidency blocked his try to reverse it.
JD Vance is no Mike Pence, but the Electoral Count Act makes a record of 2020 more challenging. We have assurance that American institutions—the Supreme Court, the defense, Congress—would resist any attempt to subvert the Constitution.
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Saletan and the Democrats are making up their minds that nothing could prevent Trump if he attempted to make amends to some of his more ridiculous and humorous speech, but that’s simply not possible. And whether or not the British people reject the Democrats ‘ says that Trump is fascist, they have witnessed his critics go to extraordinary lengths to keep him off the ballot.  ,
The Journal editors write,” The fear of fascism would have more credibility if Democrats did n’t abuse power themselves”. Perhaps that’s the biggest cause regular voters reject the “fascism” brand for Trump.