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Trump isn't particularly right wing let alone far right. This is probably still the best takedown of that idea: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-s
by fidgewidge 4y ago
Trump isn't particularly right wing let alone far right. This is probably still the best takedown of that idea:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-w...
Trump is politically/ideologically center left. He has very little to say about wokeism, was fine with vaccine mandates, and said things like this:
"America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future."
Also he was a Democrat in the past.
The term far right doesn't make any sense if you think about it for a second. It's not just in American politics. People describe the NSDAP as "far right" even though it was largely indistinguishable from the USSR which everyone agrees was far left. Far right would logically be the extreme inverse of communist countries like China or the USSR: shrink the government at any cost, freedom of speech without limits, repealing laws en masse, refusing to take over the world and so on. So extreme libertarianism. In practice though, this isn't what people mean when they say far right.
- mrguyorama 4y agoAh yes, the classic "Actshually the nazis called themselves socialist so they must be socialist" Even though they were an extremely corporatist and oligarchical system. The nazis were so hilariously un-socialist, that one reason hitler pushed for invading the soviet union, an action that pretty much sealed their fate to lose, was to deal with those "bolshevik jews" who hitler was terrified were going to cause a socialist revolution in germany. Nowadays people scream about "Cultural marxism" instead because most people are smart enough to see "bolshevik jews" as the anti-semetic dog whistle it is. Unless you think north korea is the morally superior country, they have "Democratic" in the name!
- fidgewidge 4y agoThe only serious disagreement those two groups had about how to run a country was who got to be the dictator.
- DontchaKnowit 4y agoYep lets take a reasomable commenter and call him a Nazi! What fun it is to strawman people on the internet