Standard fascism playbook. Attach false labels to your opponents (if they already radicalized enough parts of their base, their base is going to go with it), then start oppressing them (or worse).
Trump also regularly attaches labels like “Radical Leftist X” or “communist activist judge Y” to people he doesn’t like. It’s to spread these false accusations, establish these falsehoods as a new reality in the public minds through constant repetition of such propaganda lies (see Goebbel’s dictionary, he mentioned that large parts of the population can be made to believe any false claim if you just repeat it enough times), and then to radicalize their followers to start oppressing these people.
Law, order, truth, science, it all doesn’t matter anymore. Fascism is all about creating its own warped reality in which everyone who is against the fascists is a ripe target for oppression (or worse).
It’s also going to get worse as time goes by because they want to remain in power even when their terms are limited, i.e. they need to establish a dictatorship-like form of corrupt and criminal government which also fuses with ruthless mega corps and other ruthless, powerful billionaires on the other side (who benefit from corrupt, right-wing extremist governments).
And thanks to the internet and billionaire-controlled proprietary social media platforms and some other media companies, it doesn’t stay local to the USA - the brown propaganda spreads to all western democratic countries, turning a significant portion of citizens into fascists who will then vote right-wing extremists into power.
Next to climate change, this is the biggest problem we have in the western world right now.
With Trump and his mob, they have a limited vocabulary of pejorative labels they apply to anything they don’t like. And all that any of them mean is “me no like!”
Standard fascism playbook. Attach false labels to your opponents (if they already radicalized enough parts of their base, their base is going to go with it), then start oppressing them (or worse).
Trump also regularly attaches labels like “Radical Leftist X” or “communist activist judge Y” to people he doesn’t like. It’s to spread these false accusations, establish these falsehoods as a new reality in the public minds through constant repetition of such propaganda lies (see Goebbel’s dictionary, he mentioned that large parts of the population can be made to believe any false claim if you just repeat it enough times), and then to radicalize their followers to start oppressing these people.
Law, order, truth, science, it all doesn’t matter anymore. Fascism is all about creating its own warped reality in which everyone who is against the fascists is a ripe target for oppression (or worse).
It’s also going to get worse as time goes by because they want to remain in power even when their terms are limited, i.e. they need to establish a dictatorship-like form of corrupt and criminal government which also fuses with ruthless mega corps and other ruthless, powerful billionaires on the other side (who benefit from corrupt, right-wing extremist governments). And thanks to the internet and billionaire-controlled proprietary social media platforms and some other media companies, it doesn’t stay local to the USA - the brown propaganda spreads to all western democratic countries, turning a significant portion of citizens into fascists who will then vote right-wing extremists into power. Next to climate change, this is the biggest problem we have in the western world right now.
With Trump and his mob, they have a limited vocabulary of pejorative labels they apply to anything they don’t like. And all that any of them mean is “me no like!”