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The problem is that it doesn't stick and people see it as desperate.

Trump was very favorable to Israel and has a Jewish daughter. Not typical fascist behavior.

Debbie Dingell said Trump will build internment camps and put her in one. Were were the internment camps in Trump's first term?

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Anti-Semitism isn't an inherit trait of fascism. It's an inherit trait of Nazism.

Mussolini was in power in Italy 10 years before Hitler was in Germany and he wasn't very anti-Semitic at all. He was influenced by Hitler towards the end of his reign but even then his anti-Semitic policies were mild when compared to Germany.

Part of the problem with calling someone a fascist is that people associate the word with Hitler. But Hitler wasn't the only fascist or even the first fascist.

Ok but I believe the topic is Donald Trump who has been directly, repeatedly, relentlessly, compared to Adolph Hitler, and he and his supporters slandered as Nazis. Specifically. Directly, relentlessly, repeatedly.

So perhaps this:

> Part of the problem with calling someone a fascist is that people associate the word with Hitler.

Is not making the point you think it's making.

He'll definitely go away without a fuss after his second term, right? He isn't considering what could be done about the 22nd amendment. Putin extended his terms in office in creative ways, but Trump isn't Putin and has a high regard for established political mechanisms, even if they mean there will be less importance for Trump at some point in the future.

I'm sure Trump will be happy to go into being former president Trump at the end of his term.... if the left let him.

Is there any source of reassurance about this I can look to, or only your gut feeling?

What kind of a veiled threat is that? How would "the left" not let a president leave office?

In four years trump isn’t going to be able to speak in complete sentences, much less run for office.

We don’t have to worry about him stealing any more elections, he’s far too old for that to be an issue

He'll be 3 years younger than Ali Khamenei is now, and 5 years younger than the pope.

There is already very clear cognitive decline. I don’t think he’ll be able to function as president in a couple of years.

I am less optimistic than you; I don't see how that would matter to the current MAGA movement.

>Trump was very favorable to Israel and has a Jewish daughter. Not typical fascist behavior

So because Israel is involved in something means that something can't be fascist? What about the fascist things Netanyahu is doing with Israel?

Not all nationalism is fascism.

Yeah that's why I called Netanyahus actions fascist.

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