Now Are They Fascists? – America's decline in the Trump era.

Cult of Loyalty

A common feature of fascist regimes is the demand for personal loyalty to the figurehead. The Trump movement has been

“America First” was an eye-raising slogan when Trump adopted it – not so much for its well-known pro-Nazi history but

Senator Bernie Sanders has been calmly but firmly holding Trump’s feet to the fire on his congenital lying. For this

One of the most significant phenomena arising from the Trump movement is the open and eager way neo-Nazi and white

Kerry Eleveld, at Daily Kos, in the process of ⊗ commenting on the sycophancy of Trump’s handlers ⊗ and their

There has been a lot of commentary on Trump’s bewilderingly insane weekend tweet-storm alleging that President Obama had ordered a

David Neiwert has ⊗ a really fine essay ⊗ at Huffington Post on the fascist tendencies of Donald Trump – written a

Charles M. Blow, at The New York Times, offers ⊗ this somewhat quixotic demand ⊗ for a halt to the madness: The

Gilbert and Sullivan Explain Trump Lies Why Trump lies so much – explained by GILBERT & SULLIVAN.Please share if you

George Lakoff, a linguist specializing in political speech, offers ⊗ this useful taxonomy ⊗ of Trump’s seemingly crazed, but highly strategic,