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Trump, National Socialism, Immigration, and His Psychiatric Diagnosis

Trump, National Socialism, Immigration, and His Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Robert Lindsay
Jan 07, 2024
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Trump, National Socialism, Immigration, and His Psychiatric Diagnosis
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CLAVDIVS AMERICANVS: Do You think national socialism is a natural human tendency?

Of course. Nazism was no aberration. That's the scary thing. Fascism and even Nazism are baked right into the human tendency.

Read Trotsky on fascism. Some of the finest work ever done on the subject. Trotsky says the fascist is simply "the ordinary man on the streets," or "the shirtless ones" as Peron put it. The fascist is the "regular guy," and perhaps the fascist is also the "regular gal" too.

The middle classes are profoundly susceptible to fascism and even workers can go in for it. Look at Italy. Mussolini was a Marxist and his blackshirts were regular workers.

Then in a couple of years, Mussolini did a u-turn and became a "pro-worker" corporatist and his worker blackshirts were in the streets beating up peasants and workers.

Keep in mind that Mussolini came into power in the 1920's when there was a serious threat of Left revolution in Italy. Workers and peasants were literally marching in the streets …

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