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What is the first thing fascists or Nazis do when they come into power, the very first thing? They destroy the left. Before they go after the Jews, as in Germany, before they go after the liberals and anyone who is not a fascist, before they go after national minorities, they arrest, imprison, torture, and murder the communists, the socialists, and the trade unions. Because they know that in order to pursue their maximal agenda, they need to drain the field of all opposition. Trump hasn't done that; in fact, he's done just the opposite. Now you could say that the reason Trump hasn't done that is that there is no real left to do it to. He thinks he can do what he's doing now because no one will stop him. I actually think there is something to that argument—and one could see how, from the point of view of a conservative, the last 40 years would tell you that you have little to worry about from the left; I think that has begun to change, but knowledge of the world is path dependent, and changes like this take a long time to seep into people's brains—which is why I don't buy the notion that somehow today's events, with all the opposition at the airports and the imposition of a stay, was part of a grand plan; if it's the spectacle of power Trump wants, he got tonight a spectacle of powerlessness. Whatever the case may be, the point is this: if Trump is a fascist (I'm dubious as you know), he may be the most backasswards fascist we've ever seen. Rather than, upon seizing state power, destroying an opposition in order to pursue a more maximal agenda, he's managed to use state power to create an opposition—what may be shaping up as the largest mass movement this country has seen in 50 years—by pursuing his maximal agenda first.
 

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