Re: What Is a Fascist?

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> Democrats are fascists.
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There is only one word to describe Democrats' recently unveiled 
strategy for the midterm elections: weird. It's incredibly weird 
to falsely label all supporters of Donald Trump as fascists and 
terrorists. It's weirder still to believe insulting people will 
somehow convince them to vote for you.

President Joe Biden made the strategy abundantly clear last week 
when he excoriated all conservatives as terrorists in his 
Philadelphia speech, shaking his fists while illuminated in red 
as if standing at the gates of hell, yelling at anyone who 
disagrees with him that they are evil. "Anyone who calls for the 
use of violence and refuses to acknowledge an election has been 
won," Biden intoned last week, "that is a threat to democracy."

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the U.S. House's Jan. 6 
select committee, echoed Biden's slanderous accusations, 
claiming, "Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party 
are, one, they don't accept the results of elections that don't 
go their way, and two, they embrace political violence. And I 
think that's why President Biden was right to sound the alarm 
this week."

This follows White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's 
confirmation that the Biden administration views "MAGA 
Republicans" as fascists.

Do Democrats really think they can win the midterm elections 
this way? People across the United States are suffering from 
inflation, high gas prices, a humanitarian crisis at the 
southern border, rampant violent crimes in cities across the 
country, critical race theory indoctrination in schools, and 
radical gender theories targeting vulnerable children.

But Biden calls half the country fascist terrorists? That is a 
wild political miscalculation.

This insane strategy also raises the obvious question: If we 
accept Raskin's definition of the two key elements of fascism as 
refusing to accept the results of elections that don't go one's 
way and embracing political violence, which party in the United 
States is the more "fascist" of the two?

Consider that on January 6, 2017, Raskin himself objected to the 
certification of the 2016 presidential election. Raskin refused 
to accept the outcome, then, of the presidential election that 
didn't go his way—because Trump won.

What's more, following her 2016 loss to Donald Trump, Hillary 
Clinton herself claimed, "You can run the best campaign, you can 
even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen 
from you."

Kamala Harris, during an appearance on "The Breakfast Club" 
prior to the 2020 election, agreed that Trump was an 
illegitimate president. On the campaign trail in 2020—seemingly 
the one time he actually left his basement—Biden likewise 
claimed Trump was an illegitimate president.

If we're playing by the rules of the Left, the Democratic Party 
has embraced the first element of fascism. The second element, 
according to Raskin, is embracing political violence. Um, which 
party does that?

Ask denizens of Minneapolis, Louisville, Charlotte, D.C., 
Kenosha, Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, and countless other 
neighborhoods and cities destroyed during the summer of 2020. 
They were ravaged by Black Lives Matter riots and Antifa thugs 
who were rioting in pursuit of their Marxist political agenda. 
Recall too that then-vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris 
tweeted, at the time, a call to raise funds to bail rioters out 
of jail. So if we're playing by the rules of the Left, the 
Democratic Party has embraced the second element of fascism, too.

Notwithstanding the hypocrisy, Democrats' midterm strategy 
remains clear: Falsely accuse all Republicans of being fascists. 
The question is: why?

The answer lies in the details surrounding the FBI's raid of Mar-
a-Lago last month that you won't hear from the mainstream media. 
As gleaned from a court filing from 2021 from Judge Tanya 
Chutkan, it seems the FBI raid was predicated not upon allegedly 
classified documents housed improperly at Mar-a-Lago, but upon 
the then-embryonic Jan. 6 select committee's desire to fish for 
evidence to bolster its false allegation that Trump coordinated 
the Capitol riot.

This is the Democrats' long game. The reason for the Democrats' 
seemingly bizarre midterm elections strategy, then, isn't 2022; 
it's 2024 and beyond. The Left wants to criminalize Trump, so he 
can't run in 2024, by criminalizing his criticism of the 
integrity of the 2020 presidential election. The Left can 
therefore kill two birds with one stone. If the Left succeeds in 
criminalizing Trump's speech, it can criminalize any speech 
questioning the integrity of an election. And if leftists 
criminalize your speech, they will successfully criminalize any 
criticism of their own corruption. If they criminalize your 
speech exposing their corruption, they will cement for 
themselves power in perpetuity.

By preemptively labeling every conservative a fascist and 
terrorist, Democrats are therefore conditioning the American 
people for what comes next after they indict Trump following the 
midterm elections. It won't be pretty.

Liz Wheeler is host of "The Liz Wheeler Show."

https://www.newsweek.com/what-fascist-opinion-1740873