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Craig, “Red Party” is a misnomer. It is the American Fascist Party. Why we are so afraid to properly identify our enemies if really part of the problem.

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Well said, Cracker! If only everyone saw the importance of calling fascism by its name! Giving fascism safe names like authoritarians or Red Party only allows it to remain in the shadows where it grows best. Yesterday’s performance by SCOTUS should leave no doubt that the American Fascist Party is alive, well, & in power. If we don’t recognize that, we are, indeed, doomed to live in an illiberal democracy!

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Thanks Jack, I remain deeply concerned over the long term reluctance of academics and moderate Democrats to use proper terminology to describe today’s Republican Party.

Apparently it seems that to qualify for the Fascist label, the Neo-Fascists of today, born out of a meld of Nazi loving militias, KKK and John Birch Society ideology must actually be pushing humans into boxcars for a death camp to earn the moniker.

I can fill pages with features common to the Nazi Part on the rise from 1922 to 1933 when Hitler took power that mirrors all the hate filled, vile ideology that Trump lovers hold dear today.

However, you clearly put it all together quite awhile ago.

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