Donald John Trump and MAGA Represents Racism and Cruelty

Lloyd Lofthouse
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It’s a widely accepted view among scholars and historians that fascism, racism, and cruelty are closely linked and often exist together.

Trump, MAGA, and fascism prioritizes the nation or a specific group (often defined by race or ethnicity) above all else, supporting extreme nationalism, authoritarian rule, and the suppression of opposing voices. Donald Trump: Aggressive Rhetoric and Political Violence.

In their world, this forceful focus on the national community often leads to defining who belongs, MAGA, and who is excluded, liberals and most minorities. In the case of Nazism, for example, the exclusion was based on racial purity, leading to the persecution and genocide of Jewish people and other minorities.

For Trump and MAGA, the focus is to persecute undocumented immigrant and liberals. Trump’s first 100 days target diversity policies, civil rights protections

Fascist regimes tend to accept and even celebrate violence as a tool to achieve their national goals, while suppressing dissenting voices. This eagerness to use threats and violence often translates into cruelty towards those outside the favored group or a threat to the fascist state. ‘We’ll hunt you’: Trump, MAGA supporters’ violent rhetoric isn’t a glitch. It’s a feature.

History offers many examples, such as Nazi Germany’s horrific crimes against humanity, demonstrating the brutal consequences of fascist ideologies when coupled with racism, while ignoring human rights.  Who are the innocent men Trump’s regime sent to El Salvador, while ignoring their due process rights?

In conclusion, it’s accurate to declare that there’s an evil relationship between Donald John Trump, MAGA, fascism, racism, and cruelty.

Responses to “Donald John Trump and MAGA Represents Racism and Cruelty”

  1. acflory Avatar
    acflory

    History shows that every society has to have a balance between individual rights and group/societal rights. If the 1% count as individuals then the balance is severely out of whack. There will be a re-balancing, but I fear it will hurt the good people as much as the monsters. Not everyone sent to the guillotine was a cruel member of the nobility. 😦

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    1. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
      Lloyd Lofthouse

      Innocent people always suffer during wars, revolutions, and civil wars. Still, there seems to be no shortage of monsters like Trump and his fascist MAGA cult, who fit the profile of those who cause it to happen every time. And who will stay far away from the death and carnage? Trump, who has perfected the crime of spreading chaos and suffering to a science of sorts, … and never paying for his crimes. He’s had decades of practice.

      Thomas Jefferson admitted as much when he wrote what it will take to keep the Tree of Liberty alive.

      https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation/

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      1. acflory Avatar
        acflory

        I read that excerpt but…to be quite honest, I didn’t understand it because I have no context for what he’s saying. I agree re tRump and maga though.

      2. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        I think Jefferson’s metaphor to stay free means sometimes patriots have to fight, shedding our blood, and the blood of tyrants like Trump and MAGA, to keep the tree of liberty alive. I think he was right. To keep freedom alive, the US fought the war of 1812, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.

        I do not think the Vietnam and Iraq wars count though. Those two countries were never a threat to free countries like the US, UK, EU, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

      3. acflory Avatar
        acflory

        Australia is a very young country in many ways so we’ve fought in other peoples’ wars, but not amongst ourselves so the concept of being prepared to shed blood for freedom is alien to me. If we were invaded then yes, I’d probably throw rocks and help where I could, but otherwise? No. 😦

      4. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        Molotov Cocktails do more damage than rocks. :o)

        Invaded/conquered countries almost always have resistance via guerrilla warfare and insurgencies.

        Vietnam is a perfect example. Off and on, Imperial China invaded and occupied Vietnam for about a 1,000 years with nonstop Vietnamese armed resistance movements fighting back. It took 1,000 years before the Imperial Chinese finally left and never returned.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_under_Chinese_rule

      5. acflory Avatar
        acflory

        OMG! I had no idea. I knew the Chinese influence was massive in South East Asia, but I thought they empires/dynasties were ‘cultural’ rather than military.
        And yes, not only Vietnam. Korea – north and south, Afghanistan – 20 years under Russians, 20? under the US – and those are just recent examples. You’d think empire builders would realise that it’s just not worth it. 😦

      6. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        I don’t think empire builders, like the convicted rapist, fraud and felon, read history or care about it. Malignant narcissists like the January 6, 2021, traitor, loves one thing and only one thing. Themselves. Nothing else counts. In their minds, they are so great, like a god, everyone else should be worshiping them.

      7. acflory Avatar
        acflory

        Ain’t that the truth. 😦

  2. Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt Avatar
    Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

    The ‘white’ men on top are not likely to question that status they love.

    I still don’t believe it won’t catch up with them (can we all whisper Epstein list?), but the mills of the gods grind slowly, though they grind exceedingly fine.

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    1. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
      Lloyd Lofthouse

      KARMA works too slow. Most of the greedy few among the richest 1%, who cause so much suffering and loss, dies before history catches up with them, setting the record straight. Can we call it justice when they aren’t around to pay the price?

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      1. Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt Avatar
        Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

        No, but do we want to descend to their level to get rid of them? Us being decent has always interfered (well, not always – the French Revolution was rather successful).

      2. Lloyd Lofthouse Avatar
        Lloyd Lofthouse

        I approve of the French Revolution’s results. I think there’s something to be said about fighting fire with fire.

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