Is the US turning into a fascist country?

Or at least it's government.
Some observations include:
- Language around invading/seizing control of Greenland
- Direct/indirect undertones of threat towards Canada
- Disdainful attitudes from its members regarding the UK and the EU, and a general diplomatic disregard for other countries
- World wide economic coercion/blackmail with little or no care for the consequences, even to its own countries citizens financially
- The suppression and monitoring of school education, even in private schooling.
- The mass arrests/jailing and deportations of proven innocent foreign citizens

We see throughout history a trend of social and ideological cleansing, alongside economic, diplomatic, and military threats towards other nations during past fascistic regimes, and hostility towards foreign citizens often in the name of the betterment of the country in question.

What do you think?.

*Please keep discourse civil and show candour to others*

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

It's government... yes.

I don't see what box they don't check with the course they are going. Don't forget, that Fascism is nationalistic, which means that fascists from different countries use their own cultural history to define the movement and it's direction. For most European countries, who have a large pre-liberal history, this is way easier then then the modern USA. Mainly, because the USA is defined by those founding fathers that did the intellectual heavy lifting. Like it or not, the founders of the USA are all early liberals. So, it's kinda hard to find a foothold to define your movement on, there is no Roman Empire, there is no Germanic pagean tribes and there is no Medieval setting. In a way, you need to illiberalize a liberal founding... but leave that to all the voices that have lost every debate surrounding the USA character, those christian fundamentalist and the heritage of the confederacy. Those and images of European movements in Spain and Italy during the 1930s, and lessons from illiberal leaders as Orban and Vladimir Putin are all being forged together with American exceptionalism.

You can argue that the republican party is a coalition... which I've always said on here (I think a lot of Anglo-Saxons with a "Winner-Take All" or "First Past the Post" system forget that sometimes). But the leading voice today, are the far-right factions and specifically the religious-fundamenalist types. What these people think in their free time, for now, is unimportant to the question because they are not the ones speaking to the crowd. If J.D. Vance is close to Peter Thiel, that's cool I guess... but as a Vice President, he falls in line with Donald Trump. There are no voices talking about seceding as long as Donald is in office. States rights are cool, if it's used to trigger the liberal states. But once liberal states have rights Donald doesn't like, then the federal government suddenly is mobilized to undercut those states rights. 🤷‍♂