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Here’s the one that I saw, though I honestly wouldn’t recommend buying one if you want a physical copy. Anyone that’s making these probably doesn’t deserve to be financially supported by them

I live in Appalachia and the fans out here are borderline homoerotic with their adoration of Dear Leader.

You don't fly flags like this if you aren't obsessed with Cheeto Benito: https://www.amazon.com/WENQI-Machine-Helicopter-Outdoor-Decorative/dp/B087D5WQLK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=rambo+trump+flag&qid=1632431423&sr=8-3#

A post from the future...

#trumplives

He isn't dead, he's gone underground to continue the fight against the cabal of child-eating virgin sacrificers hiding in plain sight in government!

I agree there are dumb ppl and weirdos both sides. However stuff like this not as common on the left, as it is on the right side. Another comment mentioned this was basically done as an inside joke by the company owner, not even done by Obama supporters or the left side. Ive never seen anything like this before, but stuff like this stuff has been very common on the right side the last 4-5yrs. I just googled Obama flag and most of it was the “Hope” flag and two funny ones (weed and homies), but google trump flag and like 50+ versions come up. It’s just weird and cringy. Both sides are shit, but the right does a lot more weird cringy shit.

Okay. Full disclosure, overall I think the question of "is Trump a fascist" is for the historians and political scientists of the future because, importantly, we literally made up the term fascist.

That being said, I think it is worth discussing whether or not he moved the country (or maybe is a symptom of the country's movement) in that direction; whether he was a proto-fascist or some other term like that. Obviously Trump wasn't literally Hitler, but Hitler didn't spring out of nowhere and it took a lot of "not literally Hitler"s to get to "literally Hitler," y'feel me?

If you look at the Wiki's brief characteristics:

>far-right

"Far" is certainly up to interpretation, but I would be surprised if a lefty doesn't recognize how far right American politics are in general on a global scale.

>authoritarian

His instincts certainly were authoritarian; think of his attitude toward wanting to make it easier to sue media outlets that he didn't like ("opening up those libel laws") and the way he wanted to treat (and did treat) even non-violent protesters, e.g. Lafayette Square.

Did the US become a more authoritarian country overall with him in power? Indigenous peoples would certainly say so as he continued and re-energized (pun intended) the long American tradition of trampling on Indigenous land rights. He encouraged and egged on a continued militarization of the police as well, which reminds me of the irony of the people who claim to be "small government" also being the ones who unquestioningly support the police, which (little-known fact), is where the phrase "police state" comes from.

It also depends on your definition of "authoritarian"; as a leftist, it seems pretty obvious to me that corporations that employ people getting more control over their time and less liability for the damage they do to the people and the environment to be "authoritarian." Gutting OSHA and the EPA, for example, reduces people's recourse for injuries caused to them by corporations, and that's authoritarian to me.

>ultranationalism

Again, your mileage will vary with "ultra" but I'd definitely say Trump moved us in that direction relative to even previous Republican presidents.

>dictatorial power

Trump wishes

>forcible suppression of opposition

You could certainly debate this.

>strong regimentation of society and the economy

Probably the first characteristic here for which the obvious answer seems to be no.

>Opposed to anarchism,

check

>democracy,

check (listen to all the Republicans talking about how "this is a republic, not a democracy")

>liberalism,

partial check ("liberalism" in the international sense - in which case Trump is still a liberal but less so, when it comes to domestic issues, than most predecessors)

>and Marxism

literally can't put enough checks!

I think maybe a more holistic idea comes from Umberto Eco, who grew up under Mussolini's fascist Italy. Written in 1995, by the way.

>The cult of tradition

Don't @ me, this is 100% an aspect of Trumpian politics.

>The rejection of modernism

This is a lite yes for Trumpism for sure, especially with the rampant distrust of the educated and educators - the unwillingness to critically analyze things like national myths, for example.

>The cult of action for action’s sake

You could debate this one, but I would say yes, partially because I think this is somewhat central to much of American political thought.

>Disagreement is treason

Are you kidding me? Did you see what they did to Liz Cheney, someone who's already far-right herself but who got absolutely cancelled for simply disagreeing with the president?

>appeal against the intruders

lol

>appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.

again, this clearly applies.

>the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged

It's not coincidence how many Trumpists believe things like Qanon and just generally "coastal elite" conspiracies despite the groups they're saying are in cahoots (for example, billionaire capitalists and communists) having zero interests in common.

>The enemy is both strong and weak

"These effeminate liberals who would cry if they touched a real weapon and are confused just by pronouns also somehow control every aspect of the bureaucracy from the shadows of the deep state."

>there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle

again, this is just typical conservative dogma that has been adopted by Trumpism

>Contempt for the weak

duh

>Everybody is educated to become a hero

look no further than the whole discussion about arming everyone being the solution to mass shootings. And I'm a leftist, so I'm very much pro gun rights, but the way many of these righties frame it ("good guy with a gun") is just asking to be compared to self-heroization.

>Machismo and weaponry

lmao duhhhh

>Selective populism

Definitely. Such as promising to bring back coal jobs and jobs in the rust belt while doing nothing to respond to the overwhelming majority of Americans' wants, such as better healthcare.

>impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax

Can certainly be tied to the opposition to institutions of higher learning, especially vis-à-vis the further exploration of things like human gender and sexuality.

And Trump is a perfect exemplar when it comes to elementary syntax.

>they’re not so fond of him that they deify him.

I have yet to see anyone put Biden on a flag as Rambo or on a tank with fireworks or as George Washington with a machine gun and an eagle. This whole hypermasculine and firearms imagery associated with Trump is so odd to me

Found it on Amazon. LMAO