Specter of Trump Fascism.

Seems to me this was a pretty decent summary of today's situation.

I got nothing to add.

Specter of Fascism: Cohen Says Trump Won’t Leave Peacefully in 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7fEDpgO9o

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Published on Feb 27, 2019

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Elijah Cummings' stunning closing remarks at Cohen hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72gy-LZ4UN0

CNN  |  Published on Feb 27, 2019

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) concluded the House Oversight Committee's questioning of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen by delivering a call to "keep democracy in tact" and a return to normalcy in the political arena.

Frightening Normalization of Trump Values.

This morning after reading a Durango Herald editorial, “The Times called an audible and fumbled” (9/6/2018) a couple comments caught my attention.

“People need to get a grip. The world isn't falling apart because of Trump…”

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“The Herald needs to note and call attention to the fact that there are some massive attempts by the larger liberal news media to unseat the democratically-elected president of the United States. Why is the Herald, which used to pretend to be objective, a part of that movement?…”

The whole thing got me to thinking about the Normalization of Trump-think and Republican’s causal allegiance with Trump’s most destructive values.

I compiled a list.  After posting it I decided to do some web surfing to find supporting details for my various observations.  Since the Durango Herald probably wouldn’t appreciate me posting all these links over there, I’m going to post my annotated comment over here:

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Seems to me the most horrifying thing going on is all this casual thoughtless normalization of Trump-think:  

A man who's political bones were made, peddling an absolutely malicious toxic lie - namely, President Obama’s supposedly missing birth certification, with the screamed implication that Obama was an illegitimate president to be held in contempt. (https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther/index.html)

A man who’s entire political career is based on deriding and demonizing his enemies, real and imagined. (https://www.thenation.com/article/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/)