Introduction: From left to right a raucous
chorus has emerged to denounce Republican Presidential primary frontrunner
Donald Trump as a ‘fascist’. They cite his campaign promises to build an
Israeli-style wall along the US border; his threats to expel eleven million
undocumented immigrants; and to restrict foreign Muslims from entering the US,
as well as the way his pugnacious face and arm resemble those of Benito
Mussolini (’he juts out his chin, he raises his arm’).…
They decry his extreme nationalism as
‘resembling Hitler’s policy’, by which they mean his opposition to detrimental
free trade agreements and his slogan to “Make America Great.. Again.”
In this article I will critically address the
current cartoonish image of fascism with fascism’s historical reality, and then
proceed to analyze the so-called “lesser evil” politics behind the re-invention
of an American fascist in the guise of billionaire Donald Trump.
Fascism: Fact and Fiction
Historically, fascist politics involved
organized mass movements, armed militia and paramilitary groups who assaulted
political opponents and violently censored critical speech and suppressed the
right to assemble. Fascists scapegoated minorities, especially gypsies and
Jews, and burned trade unions and leftist headquarters, assassinating their
leaders and beating their members. Programmatically, they attacked pacifists
and defended overseas wars and empires in the name of ‘living space’. Evoking a
past imperial glory, they were not ‘isolationists’.
Candidate Trump has not organized anything
resembling a mass movement, let alone an armed militia. There are no
‘Trumpeting Brown Shirts’. At most, the police and a handful of his (often
elderly) white supporters have punched a few KKK-dressed provocateurs who have
physically disrupted and threatened Trump’s public meetings and his exercise of
free speech. In fact, the ‘fascist’ disruption of democratic freedoms seems to
be mostly organized and practiced by his political rivals.
Trump, far from scapegoating the powerful
Jewish minority in this country, gave a shamelessly Israel-centric speech and
received a standing ovation from nearly 18,000 mostly prominent Jews at the
March 2016 meeting of the major pro-Israel lobby (AIPAC).
His rhetoric, concerning the expulsion of 11
million undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America and the building
of a border wall, is a far cry from the practice of imprisoning and violently
expelling over two million undocumented Latinos under the
Clinton-Bush-Obama/Clinton regimes. At its worst, Trump promises to continue
the existing federal policy on immigration and not create a ‘fascist’ rupture
with past administrations. Is a ‘rhetorical cement wall’ worse than the real
wall of armed border police, helicopters and armed carriers that have operated
under the Presidencies of Clinton - Bush - Obama/Clinton with its hundreds of
migrant deaths in the desert? Are declarations of a repressive immigration
policy more ‘fascist’ coming from Trump’s loud mouth than the actual official
practice of violently seizing undocumented workers from their homes and
workplaces with long-term imprisonment and expulsion? Expelling youth, raised
and educated in this country, or violently splitting up productive,
well-integrated families and imprisoning their main breadwinners for lack of
documents…that’s the official policy of the current and past three
administrations.
There is far less of the truly fascist embrace
of pre-emptive war and invasion in Trump’s speeches than in the actual policies
pursued by the Clinton-Bush-Obama/Clinton regimes. In fact, among Trump’s
numerous critics, especially his Republican rivals and the Hillary Clinton
camp, we hear the loudest denunciations of his non-interventionist foreign
policy (isolationism), which is “out of line” with the interventionist,
overseas wars of current and past Republican and Democratic administrations.
Trump’s critics and media pundits are ‘horror-struck’ at his apparent
willingness to co-operate with Russian President Putin against common enemies,
such as ISIS. Is his pragmatic regard of Russia more or less fascist than his
rivals’ support for the Ukrainian putsch, orchestrated by the Obama regime in
alliance with bona fide armed anti-Semitic Ukrainian fascists? His calls to
dump NATO as an expensive drain on US treasure and manpower have the elite
howling in outrage!
The propagandists, who paint Trump as a modern
American fascist, cite his crude sexist remarks as ‘examples of a misogynist
totalitarian’ while pointing favorably to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
as potentially the ‘first feminist President’. In regard to his alleged
misogyny, ‘the Donald’ pointed to Madame First Lady, Senator and Secretary
Clinton’s promotion and critical role in US wars against Libya, Iraq and Syria
where well over one million women have been rendered refugees, raped, injured
or killed. Which is worse, one may ask: Crude locker room jokes or millions of
orphaned boys and girls denied parents, homes, education and any future in the
Middle East and North Africa? That is the world Midwife Hillary Clinton had
helped to deliver.
Misogyny is the in the eye of the deceiver.
Are Trump’s verbal attacks on the practice of
US multi-nationals relocating abroad to avoid US taxes and Wall Street
financial houses hiding billions of the US elites’ obscene wealth in offshore
tax shelters, more detrimental to ‘American values’ (as charged) than Hillary
Clinton’s pandering to Wall Street while pocketing over $300,000 for each 45 minute
sycophantic performance (marketed as her ‘policy lectures’), or her decades of
actively promoting globalization - including the US job-destroying NAFTA?
Clearly Trump currently lacks program,
organization and practice that define a fascist politician. At the very worst,
he parrots the general line of attack against immigrants and Muslims. So far he
would just bar them from the US but not bomb them ‘to the stone-age’. This
should be contrasted with the actual policies carried out by the war-criminals
Clinton/Bush/Obama-Clinton. It would be hard for Donald to ‘trump’ Hillary when
she threatened to ‘obliterate Iran’ and its scores of millions of citizens
because of Iran’s fictitious ‘nuclear program’.
On the other hand, Trump’s own meetings and
rallies have been the victim of repeated disruption by organized groups acting
like fascist thugs. Role reversal in real life: Trump, the target of rabid
sustained mass media attacks, is pronounced the fascist …
Bashing Trump: Backdoor Backing of Hillary the
Militarist Psychopath
If the objective case for labeling Trump ‘a
fascist’ is weak or non-existent, why do so many prestigious academics and
journalists play this stupid game of name-calling?
The commonsense explanation of their ruffled
bluster is because they are setting up ‘Trump-the- Straw-Dragon’ in order to
promote the poisonous Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton as the ‘lesser evil
candidate’ for President of the United States.
No serious observer minimally aware of
Clinton’s carnal embrace of multiple simultaneous disastrous and destructive
wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Libya, could possibly
support her - unless if they are convinced that a greater danger looms on the
horizon and “we have to defeat fascist Trump at all cost”? No serious democrat
or wage and salaried employee can ignore Madame Clinton’s role as Wall Street’s
most shameless pimp unless they ‘believe’ that a loud-mouth New York ‘fascist
is worse than Wall Street’.
The phony scaremongering about Trump’s
“fascism” just serves to cover up Clinton’s most servile promotion of
traitorous wars for the benefit of Israel. One should envision the thousands of
desperate Syrian refugees clinging to decrepit boats in the Mediterranean when
reading excerpts of Clinton’s private e-mails: According to WikiLeaks, Hillary
declared that “the best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear
capability (sic) is to help (sic) the people of Syria overthrow the regime of
Bashar Assad. … The fall of the House of Assad could well ignite a sectarian
war between the Shiites and the majority Sunnis of the region drawing in Iran,
which, in the view of Israeli commanders would not be a bad thing for Israel
and its Western allies”. Not a bad thing for Israel - but a cruel and criminal
policy against a sovereign nation and multi-ethnic society. Madame Clinton
followed through with these demented pronouncements, which can only be viewed
as genocidal! Clinton promoted the most violent proxy war, uprooting over half
of the civilian population of Syria and killing hundreds of thousands, while
shredding a sovereign nation. She thus pandered to her Israeli mentors and
Pluto-Zionist funders.
To justify backing a serial war monger, a US
Secretary of State who has served Israel’s interests, and a politician who has carnalized
her ‘feminist principles’ with Wall Street billionaires, Hillary Clinton’s
smarmy supporters have had to invent an opponent who is even worse: Creating
and then denouncing “Trump the Fascist” serves as a backdoor justification for
supporting a proven political psychopath!
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