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Encouraging his supporters to "rough up" protestors and offering to pay their legal bills is about as fascist as it gets.

• gozur88 11y ago
  No it isn't. If you really want to see fascism in the US you have to go to college campuses, where students are expected to shout down speakers and assault them.
  • drjesusphd 11y ago
    Now you're just lying.
    • gozur88 11y ago
      http://www.therebel.media/watch_triggered_protester_pours_bottle_of_urine_on_lauren_southern_because_she_was_winning_debate http://www.therebel.media/watch_triggered_protester_pours_bo... http://nypost.com/2016/02/11/the-fight-for-tolerance-at-rutgers-hits-a-new-low/ http://nypost.com/2016/02/11/the-fight-for-tolerance-at-rutg... That is fascism. Not what Trump is doing. When you try to prevent people from speaking. Not when they react.
  • tyuco 11y ago
    And it's not even new. They used to crash E.O. Wilson's lectures, decades ago, calling him a fascist and a rape apologist, because they did't like the implications of evolutionary biology for their ideological narrative.
  • api 11y ago
    You're right and wrong. To the extent that such suppression is happening on campuses that is also an example, but it doesn't excuse Trump. Your argument amounts to "but those people are also a-holes!" Well okay, sure, but yeah. That's why I included left-populism in my top level comment. Populism tends toward authoritarianism and... authoritarianism is authoritarianism. The extreme left and the extreme right converge on very similar things. In both cases you get a lot of "the end justifies the means" and we know where that goes.