Will Saletan: Let's Be Honest, Trump's Running As a Fascist
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-be-honest-trumps-running-as?utm_medium=%3D
DONALD TRUMP IS RUNNING THE MOST openly fascist campaign ever undertaken by a major-party nominee for president of the United States.
Thats not hype; its a textbook application of the term. In 2021, Trump used violence to try to overturn an election; in 2022, he called for terminating the Constitution. Now, on the brink of returning to power, Trump is reaffirming his intent to take America deeper into autocracy.
Here are some of the threats and declarations he has issued in the past three months.
1. He says hes legally immune to all current charges against him.
Four grand juries have indicted Trump on felony charges, and one jury has convicted him. But on August 15, Trump boasted that the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and Im immune from all of the stuff that they charge me with.
2. He claims the right to do whatever he wants as president.
On August 21, Trump asserted (falsely) that the criminal case against him for obstructing recovery of classified documents was invalid because I had the Presidential Records Act. I had a right to do whatever I wanted to do.
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