TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2026
Personally, we would not: Friend, go ahead and riddle us this:
Is Donald J. Trump a fascist?
In her new column for the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg tackles that question. Tomorrow morning, we'll probably start with that column—with that question.
We'll tease our own instinct below. First, let the word go forth to the nations:
In this morning's report, we mused about historical figures who may imaginably come to mind when we consider the peculiar headlines President Trump is now generating. In this morning's report, we listed four such banners:
‘I Should Have’: Trump Says He Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines In 2020 To Overturn Election
Maggie Haberman Offers Grim Warning About Trump: ‘He Is Emboldened in a Way I Don’t Think We’ve Ever Seen Before’
Trump Promises to ‘Do Something on Greenland’: ‘Whether They Like It Or Not’
Trump Tells NY Times the Only Limit On His Power is His ‘Own Morality’: ‘I Don’t Need International Law’
He regrets not seizing the voting machines—and Greenland, here we come!
We probably should have included this additional headline. This involves a type of speculation by John Bolton, but it fits a certain pattern:
John Bolton Reveals He ‘Always Worried Trump Would’ Steal Teddy Roosevelt’s Peace Prize From White House
To peruse that report by Mediaite, you can just click here.
Bolton may just have been snarking a bit at President Trump's expense. On the other hand, we recall being struck, all the way back in 2017, by the Time magazine cover—purportedly from 2009—which was on display at Mar-a-Lago and at four other Trump locations.
The Time cover featured pre-president Trump. Except there had been no such Time magazine cover. The whole thing was totally fake.
"Grandiosity" and "narcissism" can be medical terms. We recall being struck by that unfortunate degree of those attributes when this oddity first hit the fan.
Meanwhile, would you call President Trump a fascist? Goldberg's (very intriguing) column starts exactly as shown:
The Resistance Libs Were Right
For the last decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.
The argument that he isn’t often hinges on two things...
For ourselves, we wouldn't say that he's a fascist. We think there are very good reasons for adopting that stance. We expect to go there tomorrow.
"Back out of all this now too much for us?" Is there a guide out there who can help us Americans, Red and Blue, find a road back out of this mess?
(That road will likely be hard to find. The poem is difficult too.)
ReplyDeleteHa-ha, thanks for the laughs, Bob. Nobody cares whom you BlueAnons call (or don't call) "fascist", Bob.
Everyone understands that you BlueAnons are sick puppies, if not clinical idiots, and that whatever words you say it's just a word-salad.
Somerby is not a blue-anon.
DeleteHe certainly talks like one, so as far as I'm concerned he is. ymmv
DeleteNo, he doesn’t. He says he wouldn’t call Trump a fascist. No blue-anon would decline to call Trump fascist in chief.
DeleteI disagree. That's not in the BlueAnon definition, and Bob's TDS credentials are impeccable.
DeleteSomerby is not blue.
DeleteLike many right wingers, he supports some of Trump's actions, but finds Trump boorish and thinks that is bad for branding and is ruining the Republican Party.
Anonymouse 4:39pm, “boorish”? Bob is trying to stoke up the meme that Trump is too mentally unbalanced to be in office and all anonymices see is that Bob is too unreliable to tell them that they’re precious.
DeleteA woman gets shot in the head 3 times, murdered on the street that she lives on by Gestapo goons, and the FBI decides to investigate her domestic partner.
ReplyDeleteGo fuck yourselves you motherfucking nazi bastards.
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.
Your Democrat bosses sent those women to obstruct law enforcement procedures, Soros-monkey. Consequently, your Democrat bosses are fully responsible for everything happening to these stupid dykes.
DeleteIt is against the law to belong to activist groups now. That includes NAMBLA, 3:44, better cancel your platinum membership .
DeleteI'm not a Democrat, to be in NAMBLA, Soros-monkey.
DeleteIt didn’t take Somerby long to drop the subject of ICE abuses. He backed right out of that.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of how Hegseth pulled out to ejaculate when he raped that Republican woman, in order to avoid culpability.
DeleteInvesting someone who may have violated federal law doesn’t make you a fascist.
ReplyDeleteHypertechnical debates about whether Trump meets some textbook definition of "fascist" aren't useful or productive. A casual observer of the news can recognize that he is a self-acknowledged authoritarian ("I don't need international law. Only my own morality.")
ReplyDeleteWe have masked agents in our cities taking people off the street and going door-to-door looking for "illegals." Trump has claimed for himself the authority to levy taxes and price controls without legislation. He orders deadly strikes against boats he says are piloted by "narcoterrorists." He threatens to rupture the military alliance that has protected Europe for the past 80 years.
And I've barely scratched the surface of his weird, dictatorial impulses. Does this mean his beliefs or behaviors are fascist? It doesn't matter. They are destructive to the American system of law and government.
Openly disregarding international law doesn't make one "self-acknowledged authoritarian", Soros-monkey. Not at all.
DeleteI would say, it makes one sovereigntist. As in "sovereignism".
Scott Adam has died.
ReplyDeleteI just can't stop crying.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 4:33pm, we’re all aware of how empathetic you are, dear.
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ReplyDeleteI am a Greenlander oppressed by the corrupt Danish monarchy. Danish King owns me! WTF? Why? Please save me, Mr. Trump!
Discuss.