144 upvotes, 12 direct replies (showing 12)
View submission: Trumpism, here to stay?
In America, Trump is tearing down the old systems and replacing them with something built around him. He’s pulling power closer, changing the rules, and making loyalty the only thing that counts. Democracy isn’t the focus anymore. Control is.
It’s not just here. The same thing is spreading across the globe. Nationalism is growing. Leaders are using the same tactics. Dissent is being silenced step by step. This isn’t just a shift. It’s a whole new way of holding power, and once it takes root, it won’t be easy to stop.
Comment by Gimme_The_Loot at 26/01/2025 at 16:27 UTC
73 upvotes, 3 direct replies
The thing about Trump though is he demands absolute loyalty, but gives none. Look at his first administration and how many of the people from it still support him after being shunned / burned by him etc.
There absolutely is a concerning rise of far right extremeism but I'm genuinely curious if there is anyone else on the R side who can muster the same cult of personality as he does. At already 78 he's already past the average male life expectancy in the US, but who knows maybe the propaganda machine can pivot to someone else?
Comment by Gates9 at 26/01/2025 at 18:24 UTC*
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” -Albert Einstein
This is our “Great Filter”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Comment by Laura9624 at 26/01/2025 at 17:25 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Agree except that its hard to stop right now. Its not new, Republicans have studied dictatorships. And participated. Nixon, Chile, Pinochet. And how propaganda works. They have all branches of government and they know it. The flood of executive orders meant to break all systems.
Comment by DifferentlyTiffany at 26/01/2025 at 19:09 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This isn't new. It's only new to us because we weren't alive 100+ years ago. We need to resist with all we have because the longer this goes on, the worse it'll get.
That said, facism is unsustainable. It is fueled by an us vs them society and therefore needs an enemy to exist. The thing about genociding your enemies is... eventually you run out. We saw this in nazi Germany where by the end they were investigating natural born Germans whose family had been there for generations, looking for any Jewish people in their lineage going back 3 or 4 generations. If left to its fate, facism eats itself & collapses.
That said, if we all band together & resist right now with all we have, we could stop this before our institutions collapse completely. That would be ideal.
Comment by OptimisticSkeleton at 26/01/2025 at 19:42 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fascism is always unstable. It’s hard to get soldiers to fight for you when they’re starving and when they do, they’re terrible at it.
Trump is too dumb to understand the US economy is heavily dependent on imports. The world can just put a stranglehold on us.
This isn’t 1933 but that won’t keep President Long Legs from trying.
Comment by Hopeforpeace19 at 26/01/2025 at 17:34 UTC*
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Trump & Project 2025 rather is set on destruction of all levels of government - and installing a TOTALITARIAN REGIME.
Unfortunately , most Americans are NOT informed nor educated about WHAT AND HOW TOTALITARIAN regimes function , nor do they know about what concretely do they entail AT EVERY LEVEL OF OUR SOCIETY.
Comment by PoolQueasy7388 at 26/01/2025 at 20:12 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just because somethings hard does NOT mean we can't do it.
Comment by SubterrelProspector at 28/01/2025 at 10:19 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
But it *can* be stopped. So let's focus on that.
Comment by BallsOfStonk at 26/01/2025 at 17:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Uh, this is the repeating story of human history. It’s about as “new” as seeing a human make fire.
Comment by g1rlchild at 26/01/2025 at 23:57 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's not a whole new way. It looks just like 1930s Germany.
Comment by frauleinsteve at 26/01/2025 at 17:52 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
He's putting back the "old systems". They were destroyed, which is why he ran for office in 2016.
Comment by swanspank at 26/01/2025 at 20:52 UTC
-4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Didn’t Facebook admit the Biden administration was pressuring them to censor? That’s not Trump unless you think Trump controls the Democratic Party.