@jsl76 said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:
@bi4smooth said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:
@jsl76 said in Where is the Conservative Outrage?:
@bi4smooth
Flynn himself repudiates what's been ascribed to him: https://news.yahoo.com/michael-flynn-denies-suggesting-myanmar-220150348.html
Flynn says he didn't mean it - and I trust him in that (though if you watch the video, there isn't much to walk back... which is to say, he doesn't give himself much "wiggle room"... he's pretty blatantly calling for a military coup!)...
My outrage isn't so much with him (tho it is to a lesser extent), it is with the crowd's reaction - in full, enthusiastic support of a military coup because they lost an election!
I'm using this term in another topic, but it's apropos here as well - this is Nationalist Fascism! \
Self-delusional, and dangerous!
Have you ever actually attended a political rally? I have. I'm a member of my county's GOP executive committee in Michigan. When the crowd gets riled up, you could literally yell "hot dogs made from aborted babies cause hemorrhoids" and the people would be like, "right on, right on." Left or Right. I don't get worked up about what happens in political theater. Half the time, no one knows what they're cheering about, anyway.
"Nationalist fascism" is redundant. Fascism is, by definition, nationalist. But if you think the GOP is fascist, you're on crack. Apart from a handful of legit neo-Nazi groups on the far fringes, there's no fascism in the U.S. Abusing the term for political shits and giggles is morally reprehensible and intellectually dishonest.
Nazi Fascism was also Nationalist... true, and while the Nazi's were also a cult of personality focused on the infallibility of Hitler, I don't put Trump in the same boat as Hitler (Honestly, Hitler was smarter - politically - and more ruthless).
I do not believe the Republican Party is Fascist - at least not MY Republican Party! (Yes, I'm a registered Republican)... but that doesn't mean Trump himself - and his followers - aren't Fascists...
But there is a difference between Nationalist Fascism and simple Fascism... and Trump meets the definition of the former... to a T!
Also, I've been to many a political rally, and yes I've been at rallys where a speaker said something stupid and the crowd initially started to cheer - but then pulled back. There was no pull-back at Flynn's speach... indeed, when some participants were interviewed afterwards and asked if they supported the idea of a Military Coup against the US Government, the most common reply was akin to "Yes, if it'll get President Trump back into power!" - that's scary... and not in a halloween or roller-coaster kind of scary... that's "there's a bomb on the plane" scary!