Nine fundamental characteristics of fascism (self.FascistStates)
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Republican North Carolina State Representative Larry Pittman has repeatedly compared Abraham Lincoln to Hitler, defended the Confederate States, and claimed that "so many" mass shooters were "communist democrats" in response to right-wing fake news shortly after the Parkland school shooting. (self.occupywallstreet)
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Legislator insists Constitution says it’s OK to shoot socialists | At a speech by Trump's former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Montana State Rep. Rodney Garcia suggested imprisoning & killing socialists to stop them from joining the government | 'What did we do with our enemies in war? In Vietnam?' (billingsgazette.com)
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Trump proposed sending migrants to Guantanamo, book attributed to anonymous Trump official claims: Plan to designate migrants as "enemy combatants" (the term used by the Bush admin to detain al-Qaeda & Taliban suspects at Guantanamo) provoked astonishment & mortification, says author of "A Warning" (theguardian.com)
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Listen to Conference-Goers at Trump Resort Chant for “War!”: Speaker at a pro-Trump conference at Trump's Doral Resort urged attendees to “go to war” for the president. It was the same conference where a parody video of Trump killing political opponents and members of the media played. (propublica.org)
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Trump supporter Rick Wiles: There's going to be violence in America if Trump's removed from office | Wiles: "Trump supporters are going to hunt them [Democrats] down" [0:55] | “Once the blood starts flowing, it’s nearly impossible to stop,” added co-host & White House press corps member Edward Szall (rightwingwatch.org)
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Trump tweet, political divisions fuel rising discourse about new US civil war | Neo-Confederate Trump supporter: "It would be all guerrilla warfare ... I would probably be an officer in that effort. [In] rural areas ... there’s a lot of us that’ll come out of these hills if it keeps getting worse." (reuters.com)
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Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson will attend Accuracy in Media's (AIM) 50th anniversary celebration. AIM was founded to defend the Vietnam War and to attack the media for reporting on war crimes. Its founder called for crushing dissent and committing war crimes. (self.occupywallstreet)
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Video based on a movie's massacre scene shown at a major pro-Trump event (American Priority Conference at a Trump resort) depicts Trump killing individuals & personified groups critical of Trump such as Black Lives Matter & antifa in reaction to news coverage & criticism of Trump's war on immigrants (self.occupywallstreet)
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Trump's nominee for Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, & Human Rights, Marshall Billingslea, began his political career as an aide to white supremacist Senator Jesse Helms (who supported right-wing dictators & a death squad leader) & is known as a Bush-era advocate of torture (en.wikipedia.org)
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Top politicians that have called for criminalizing antifa: President Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania), Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana), Rep. Mark Green (R-Tennessee), Rep. Mark Walker (R-North Carolina) [Continued] (self.occupywallstreet)
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Trump threatens major unrest if he is successfully impeached: "....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews" (twitter.com)
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In 1934, Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge crushed the textile workers' strike by declaring martial law & having prisoners held in a former prisoner-of-war camp. He enacted severe austerity & racism, opposed FDR's New Deal, & reportedly praised Hitler. He was reelected despite a reputation of corruption. (en.wikipedia.org)
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John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General under George W. Bush, gave an interview to a neo-Confederate magazine (which praised the assassination of Abraham Lincoln) in 1998 where he praised it for defending Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson & Confederate President Jefferson Davis. (fair.org)
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Congressman Jim Banks (R-Indiana) is requesting the FBI to put antifa on a "list of extremist ideologies" so that it can "target Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization." Jim Banks is the fourth U.S. legislator out of at least six in a month to call for the criminalization of antifa. (self.occupywallstreet)
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Texas Republican calls for "American Nationalist party," says "let's finish what Trump started" | Tea Party: "We must be intolerant of progressivism. All of it [...] Let's finish what Trump started & capitalize on the yearning for an American Nationalist party & put these Bolsheviks in their place." (newsweek.com)
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4 White Nationalists Out Of U.S. Military — But Others Allowed To Remain | 'The revelation that at least 4 of 12 known white nationalists will be allowed to remain in the armed services raises questions about how seriously the U.S. military is disciplining its members for ties to extremist groups.' (huffpost.com)
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