{"id":30481,"date":"2017-11-30T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30481"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:20:04","slug":"republican-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/republican-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I started using the term Republican Reich in early in the regime of Crawford Caligula.&#160; At that time, it was satirical, tongue-in-cheek.&#160; But as time went on I recognized that establishing a Republican Reich, a totalitarian fascist state in which elections exist for show only and the outcome is predetermined.&#160; Never has that come closer to fruition that it is today under Fuhrer Donald Trump.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trump-nazi-flags.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An international politics expert who studies authoritarian regimes said President <strong>Donald Trump was already taking steps to gather tyrannical power<\/strong> \u2014 and he called on Americans to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Klaas, an expert on global democracy and political violence, told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d that <strong>Americans should worry about the Trump\u2019s willingness to flout the law and attack democratic institutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m worried about it,\u201d Klaas said. \u201cRetweeting a Britain First account linked to neo-Nazis and provoke a spat with our allies. You have demonization of the press and also attacking CNN, saying we should boycott them. There (are) constant ethics violations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/kellyanne-conway-violated-the-hatch-act-will-she-be-charged\/2017\/11\/27\/361f2170-d3bb-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">violations of the Hatch Act<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klaas, the author of \u201cThe Despot\u2019s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding &amp; Abetting the Decline of Democracy,\u201d said the White House press secretary had given an \u201cOrwellian\u201d response to questions about those anti-Muslim videos Trump retweeted from a British fascist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah Huckabee Sanders says it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s true, <strong>what\u2019s true is what the president says<\/strong>,\u201d Klaas said&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/international-politics-expert-warns-us-sliding-fascism\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JzQD1fTd5Gk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s not just Trump.&#160; I consider him a useful idiot distracting from what the Republican Party is doing and has been building for years.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started using the term Republican Reich in early in the regime of Crawford Caligula.&#160; At that time, it was satirical, tongue-in-cheek.&#160; But as time went on I recognized that establishing a Republican Reich, a totalitarian fascist state in which elections exist for show only and the outcome is predetermined.&#160; Never has that come closer <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/republican-fascism\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}