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The debate whether or not Donald Trump can be considered part of the fascist camp has been raging for years. The ex-president’s latest statements and the revelation of his plans should he actually move back to the White House have now settled the debate.

For example, Rob Reiner, a well-known actor and director (“Harry and Sally”), speaks bluntly in an interview with Ari Melber on cable channel MSNBC: “People always talk about historic elections in advance,” he explains. . “But this time it’s really happening. We have to choose between democracy (Biden) and fascism (Trump).”

Anyone who calls their political opponents ‘pests’ that must be exterminated is essentially leaving no questions unanswered. “These are echoes of fascist rhetoric, and they are very precise,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor at New York University, told the New York Times. «The overall strategy is clear. It’s about dehumanizing your opponents so that if you do what you want to do, there won’t be an outcry.” Ben-Ghiat is an expert on the history of fascism.

Since floating down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 and announcing his candidacy, the ex-president has taken a tough stance against fascist rhetoric. In general, he called Mexicans criminals and rapists. Now he is crossing these boundaries more and more often and more clearly.

Here are a few examples: He wants to have Mark Milley, the former chief of staff of the US Army, executed for alleged treason. He threatens his political opponents, all of whom he wants to throw in jail – but especially the Biden family – with revenge and retaliation. He has “no other chance,” Trump said.

Overall, Democrats in Washington are “a nest full of sick people that need to be cleaned out, and they need to be cleaned out immediately.” If re-elected, he will finally “take off his gloves” and strike, Trump continued. Yes, he even wants to break one of Americans’ biggest taboos: suspend the Constitution.

Moreover, more and more details have recently become known about how Trump wants to carry out his fascist plans. It was no coincidence that he warmly congratulated Javier Milei, the newly appointed president of Argentina, on his election victory. As is known, he wants to limit the state to an absolute minimum and dismiss civil servants on a large scale.

Trump also wants to fire about 5,000 civil servants and replace them with absolutely loyal puppets. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn will return to the West Wing of the White House and Jeffrey Clarke is being discussed as attorney general. Flynn was convicted – and pardoned by Trump – for lying to the FBI. Clarke is a co-defendant in the criminal trial in Georgia.

Given these facts, even those who condemned Trump as a slob but saw him as a political clown rather than a fascist are beginning to admit that they may have been wrong. One of them is Chuck Hagel, a Republican and former Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama. He still believes Trump does not represent a coherent worldview, but he admitted to the New York Times: “His style is damn dangerous.”

Trump’s fascism, now on open display, also has something good: Democrats are finally waking up. For a long time they tried to ignore the ex-president. Joe Biden has thus far refused to even mention his name, speaking, if at all, only of the “former man,” the man before me.

But now Biden is attacking Trump head-on and by name in his speeches. In addition to the abortion issue, the threat that Trump poses to democracy will be the central theme of the Democratic election campaign. The Democrats are also calling on TV stations to report more about the Trump rallies. They have realized that ignoring is the wrong tactic. “The more people see and hear from Trump about what he has in mind for the country if he returns to power, the better it will be for the Democrats’ election chances,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin. out. “Trump’s insatiable need for attention is an advantage for us.”

Trump’s fascist rhetoric has also alarmed the Never-Trumper camp. In an op-ed in the New York Times, three legal luminaries sound the alarm: George Conway, Michael Luttig and Barbara Comstock. All three have impeccable, conservative track records. They complain that the Federalist Society – an extremely powerful legal lobby in the US – is no longer fulfilling its role as the guardian of democracy.

“The Federalist Society, long the standard-bearer of the conservative legal movement, has failed in this crisis,” the three noted. They therefore want to create a new movement of responsible lawyers. Because: “We must rebuild a movement capable of supporting American democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law.”