This wasn't necessarily directed at you or the sane posters on the board. I'm trying to understand if those accusations have any basis or are grounded in any facts. Obviously, detractors of his ideology will be more critical and in some cases more educated on specific issues to be able to debate. I'm trying to understand where the leftist outrage claims of racism, fascism, etc. are actually stemming from. Nothing I have seen be executed thus far qualifies for any of the hyperbolic outrage and unfounded accusations. It's certainly not helping. It's akin to the Muslim claims about Obama which were equally ridiculous.
It is likely that the term is incorrectly used, but DJT may "grow" into it; that may be the concern. I could see how there may be a fear of association in that regard.
http://www.ibtimes.com/what-fascism...rump-insult-amid-merriam-webster-word-2453792
After President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, fascism has become the fourth-most-searched word in the history of the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s website and it soon could be declared its word of the year. The unusual interest in the political term comes after many critics, from celebrities to activists, have labeled the next president a fascist for his sweeping statements against Muslims, Mexicans, immigrants and women.
“'Fascism' is still our #1 lookup,” Merriam Webster tweeted Tuesday. “There's still time to look something else up.”
So what exactly is fascism? Merriam-Webster defines it as: "1 A political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. 2 A tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control."
Fascism isn't new to the American political landscape. It was the No. 3 most looked-up word in 2015.
Trump has called women ugly and fat, vowed to deport undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims and called Mexicans rapists. But some historians have warned that linking Trump to fascism might be a dangerous distraction.
“The problem with fascism is that it’s a sort of ‘boo’ word,” Richard Bosworth, a professor of history at Oxford and award-winning biographer of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, told the Guardian. “If you tag somebody with it, then on the one hand you’re saying that person is going to murder six million Jews and invade Russia, and on the other hand you feel rather good about using the term and so you don’t engage in proper analysis.” The result, Bosworth said, is you don't “work out more clearly what Trump stands for, and what the contemporary United States stands for.”
