Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains why he claims President Donald Trump's politics are akin to fascism, a political movement based around a leader.
Expert compares Trump’s politics to fascism
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It’s almost like they want Trump to win at this point lol
@Well actually, you’re right. “thats why they hate trump so much. He wasn’t part of the plan.”
While that’s true, he hasn’t broken with tradition and called out the systemic corruption, so the system, on whole, has nothing to fear from him.
@aachelabelaaron also Polarization is the only thing keeping these scumbags in power, and Trump is the best lightning rod the world has ever seen. Their days our numbered, but not because of anything Trump has done.
@J.W. Higgs Self-harmers unite… XD
@agnostic potato Whatever you’re trying to say, Trump is Putin’s paid employee, and the rich all want a taste of that cool 600 billion dollars of loot Putin stole from The Russian people and hid in Panama, Cyprus, The Caymans, Trump’s Fave launderers, Deutsche Bank, etc. Everybody’s got an angle, and no one sees Trump lining them up to shoot them in the endgame, because he has to have all the dogscraps of America for himself.
aachelabelaaron also lol
I have a feeling, CNN dislikes Trump
Really . You might be right
Mark G. Serious TDS
@Probably Not Dad You don’t understand the toll that this type of manipulation takes on society as a whole. A civil war in the States mans a lot more dead than 6 million. I’m not downplaying anything. All you have to do to win Trump’s favor is say some nice things about him. That is extremely dangerous.
Mark G. Get new content.
superc the irony of that being said on CNN
Gotta love the comments.Makes me proud of the fact that Americans are waking up.
@Terry Michaels Both parties are corrupt and the sooner you figure that the better off we will all be. Oh, and this country is f-ked. The only reason the stock market hasn’t crashed yet is because the FED is buying up stock, 40 million people unemployed, 30 millions without health care and just today in TX a local sheriff gave out 200 evictions in one town in one day.
@Angela Siegfried You are a political bigot, a simplistic one.
The stupid idea that everyone that goes into government is corrupt is SICK and STUPID.
Dear gods, the tiresome lack of education necessary for you idiots to mindlessly blanket blame EVERYONE in government is laughable.
And your moronic idea of how economics works is a joke.
Let me be clear about something:
FIRST, show your evidence about the town and evictions, or stop making baseless claims.
SECOND, COVID is to blame, not the parties, grow up.
THIRD, no one OWES you health care, loser, EARN IT.
The only reason this country will ever be screwed up is if we let seditious traitors like you take control.
@freakbag420🤔 I thought I was you can’t be serious right now. 😑Cpu Viruses don’t create themselves.🤷🏿♂️
@James Woods nah it lacks consistency
Cnn is so biased. Would be bankrupt if Google didn’t promote them with their algorithms.
Who’s here to read the comments? Lmao
@Daleftizful O’biggits I’ve made another one I think you will like too!
@Sean Breslin China was lousy at the virus. Trump made COVID19 great again.
@Scott S Yes I agree on 100%
I second that
OMG, I’m amongst friends!! I just came here to BOMB THE COMMENTS WITH THIS BAD BOY 👇
*******CERTIFIED PROPAGANDA********
Il Duce, Der Fuhrer, El Caudillo….THE DONALD
Give me a break
They would not listen, they are not listening still, Perhaps they never will…
starry starry nite
🎶🎶🎶
When you realize BLM’s leader has already called themselves marxists.
@Wayne Samuel Putin was a KGB member (true), was ‘handpicked’ by a democratically eleceted leader (arguable), and turned Russia into an authoritarian country, where all pillars of the Professor can be observed. I.e.: Fascism. He is NOT a left-leaning dictator, which is something YOU seem to reject to understand when you call him a “Marxist”
@Enyavar Nathis Kind of makes me wonder why this is happening then.
https://www.tnp.no/norway/politics/5475-norwegian-nazis-on-the-rise
@Alvin Hunter you apparently only read the headline. Unlike Trump’s anti-Democratic movement, these self-styled nazis are far from running a country. You know, they are about as important for Norway as this party is for the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA. Yes, they exist…?
@Enyavar Nathis They are still there
https://time.com/5885434/nazi-norway-history/
The Nazis’ desire to create ideal urban environments in occupied Norway—whether for the German rulers or the occupied Norwegians—underscores the importance of town planning for Hitler and his architects, who treated urban spaces as stage sets for the performance of the Volksgemeinschaft, the racial community. Even before seizing power, Hitler had begun to sketch out the architectural foundations for a new Germany, which later also shaped his ideas of empire building. The Germans invested considerable resources to create physical environments that would support a new social order in occupied Norway.
@Enyavar Nathis you’re caught up on semantics. Putin spent most of his adult life as a KGB and communist party official. The only thing I will give you is that under the USSR the party controlled and put the leader in power. Putin is akin like Stalin who was a dictator even while the Soviet Union was Marxist. At the end of the day Trump respects him more than any American hero.
The press definitely needs to stop “reporting as usual” in this most extraordinary and dangerous time in our history and they had better start now before all is lost. Wake up, people!
*AMEN!*
THEY HAVE *FAILED US* BY NORMALIZING THIS BEHAVIOR BEYOND ALL REASON.
#TRE45ON
There would be literally no burning looting and killing in the name of BLM at the moment if we had a somewhat independent media.
Jeff Zucker is a big time DNC donor and the network is more grotesque and fake by the day.
Trump winning compilation 2020 is gonna be YUGEEEEEEEEEEEE
Funny how the comments here don’t refute any of the points made by Jason.
It’s cause it’s posted by cnn dawg no one needs to watch it to understand it’s fake news 😂
Watch Tim Pool
I’m dumbfounded, you already have armed brownshirts terrorising the streets. How much more proof do you need that fascism is in danger of taking over America. Wake up people.
In the 1930’s the American Nazi Party came up with the slogan “Make America Great Again” which was similar to what the Italian and German fascists created slogans for to regain what they put forward as a “glorius past”…. All of us who have degrees in history and other social sciences are famiar with the history of extreamism and how democracies can be destroyed by them
@carmen Horn but as americans you can only choose between 2 dudes, and the other one supports the left wing terrorists. What option do you even have?
carmen Horn then you should know that antifa has been using actual fascist tactics to try and get what they want. They use violence to silence anyone who disagrees with them. Oh the irony
‘Armed brownshirts terrorising the streets’🤣. Time for you to take off those brown tinted glasses🤣
Ian Stoner
Yeah that sounds like blm rioters alright
I’m just here enjoying all of the anti CNN comments 🤗
@arti haha wake up clown you are the minority and your ridiculous news channels have you fooled
It’s very satisfying to witness the tides turning
Me and this guy aren’t apart of a “troll farm”. Bro these are actual Americans
@this guy I thought you were talking to yourself for a minute.
Me 2….
Weird how their own narratives is one of the biggest motivators for the #walkaway movement.
@arti check the like/dislikes
Promotion of semi official militias is a common fascist tactic.
@Eddy Dreves If you think the police are the bad guys and the rioters are the good guys, that is exactly what Hitler thought before he wrote Mien Kampf.
When did he write Mein Kampf? When he was in jail.
Why was he in jail? For rioting aganist the government.
@Eddy Dreves The fact that that definition doesn’t mention Giovani Gentile proves it is flawed.
Giovanni Gentile was a leftist not a rightist.
@Zechariah Nationalism and fascism have always operated on the right. They have the tendencies to act violently sooner anyway by lack of Intelligence. And of course the xenophobia is unreal in the right as you know.
@Zechariah check this. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-fascism-populism-authoritarianism-hitler-mussolini-a8949496.html
@Zechariah If you would’ve read my links, you would see that your statements here (all of them) make no sense. But I am used to guys like you trying to blame the other side from which they are guilty of themselves.The orange clown is FASCIST. And his cultists idiots.
Pretty sure Steven Millers bedtime reading is Mein Kampf.
Pretty sure he also sleeps in a coffin.
Corrupt News Network
Well this is an interview of an expert, asking good questions, and there’s clearly nothing “corrupt” going on. And you haven’t given any explanation or reason for your dismissal of this channel. Part of Fascism is attacking and demonising the press – so that the leader’s followers don’t have to engage with reality, they can just accept any and all of the leaders lies. If the followers can be convinced that whenever the press say something that is critical of the Fascist leader that they are lying, then he can say literally anything – no matter how demonstrably untrue, insane or bigoted – and his followers accept it. Kinda sounds like what’s going on with you.
Most Trump voters are not part of the “cult” and would not bend the knee to any tyrant right or left.
Olen Batchelor I think they definitely would
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Cairistiona MacLeod We’re literally voting Trump because you’re the Authoritarian nightmare you constantly warn us about.
When you think someone wanting the population NOT to be disarmed is the Fascist in the room, you’ve lost the plot.
@madcheeseknight exactly
The Left: “we’re living under a fascist system”
Also The Left: “please take our guns dear leader”
I’ll say it….
it DOES sound like a prelude to FACISM tinged with DARWISM.
Every ‘pillar’ they discussed has been demonstrated by this administration.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/21/2020-election-trump-biden-fascism-autocrat/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/03/trump-protests-fascism/
https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-08-01/american-fascism.html
It has been clear fascism is growing for some time…
Darwism ???? is that how it’s even spelled ? Is a made up word used to describe something that doesn’t really exist . Invested by religious people in an effort to dishonestly justify their own belief’s that they can’t even verify are true . No body deifies or worships Darwin and only the people that believe in their own invisible magical fantasy super being deity are claiming that other people do . Just because you feel the need to worship ( enslave yourself to ) a particular god that’s never been shown to exist . Doesn’t mean everyone feels the need to worship things . The act of worship is a disgusting slavish act that destroys a persons dignity and self worth . And no being deserves it and no being should expect it or demand or encourage it .
Also there is no meaningful connection at all with Darwin and his scientific observations and Fascism . But Fascism is associated with far right Christianity . And the fact that you think Darwinsim is an actual thing , shows just how much you fear education and the pursuit of knowledge . Which is a very scary and very dangerous to everyone else . But I do agree that trump and Pence ( the christian fundamentalist ) are showing all the hallmarks of fascism . And I bet trump never even heard of Darwin .
@Rich Dandanell
Fascism is not Christian, it does uphold cultural values and if Christianity is one of them it will uphold Christianity.
Fascism is not social Darwinist, that is Nazism.
@Eddy Dreves
No it has not.
@Spartan 506 You are fake news.
If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
@Lexy Swope
The 14 charismatics of fascism have been debunked
@madcheeseknight It’s the same pattern of Hitler and Mussolini. The theory hasn’t been debunked. I could tell that trump was an authoritarian early on. A mind-set that often ends in fascism, where we are now. The 14 points are what describe fascism. If someone fits those 14 points they are a fascist.
@Lexy Swope All this because you lost one election where you ran possibly the worst candidate in US history.
It wasn’t her turn, dude. Get over it. Build an actual platform instead of trying melodramatic crap like this.
Socialist, nationalists. I think you just defined the democrats = true Nazis
@Infiltrator2003
The Democrats are nationalist?
You just made my day.
I do not know where start……
It is probably Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, or Stephen Miller is who behind QAnon.
The biggest irony ‘Reliable Sources’🤣. The alternate universe.