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From the US and live in The Netherlands now. Europeans can understand the Republican party through their own history. They're basically just corporate fascists
by AndyMcConachie 5y ago
From the US and live in The Netherlands now.
Europeans can understand the Republican party through their own history. They're basically just corporate fascists. Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece all had very similar corporate fascists governments for many years and their policies, politics and backers very closely tracked those of the contemporary American Republican party. Whereas the Dems are a better spoken, slightly more watered down and cuddly version of the same.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoI agree with the GP comment that the GOP has no right wing parallel in Europe. But your comparison with European Fascism is both innacurate and historically disrespectful. Literally all the fascist regimes in the countries you listed were Military coups in their origin and were all fairly economically inept regimes. They also included all out media censorship, political prisoners, prisoner torture and interrogation, political assasinations, and genuine terror across civil society.
- xtracto 5y ago> They also included all out media censorship, political prisoners, prisoner torture and interrogation, political assasinations, and genuine terror across civil society Could it be a matter of comparing Policies vs strategies/tactics?
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoCharitable, but if we look at it from a policy standpoint, all the dictatorships listed were Economic Interventionists and heavy spenders on public infrastructure. Basically the polar opposite of GOP (except for QE and bank bailout interventionism).