In a post to this site in response to my comments on the assassination attempt on Trump that I treated as spam and which did not, as a result, appear on the blog, this was said:
Richard in your post on 28th June you stated that trump is
… a rapist, a fascist and an outright opponent of democracy who clearly wishes to dismantle the US
Do you still stand by these words?
Of course I do, is my response.
Facts have not been altered by what happened to Trump over the weekend.
Trump has been found guilty of rape in a court of law.
He is widely and reasonably (in the literal sense of the word) considered to be a fascist.
And he unquestionably tried to overthrow the state on 6 January 2021.
He has also promised a bloodbath if he does not win this time.
We can already see how the attack on Trump by a person whose motives are not known is going to be used. Reports, already commonplace, are suggesting that the blame for this attack should be laid at the door of the Democrats in the US because they have pointed out facts of the sort I note above. The suggestion is that the Democrat's comment supposedly fermented the sentiment that gave rise to the assassination attempt, although we will never actually know as the culprit is now dead.
These claims by those on the Right are Goebbelian. The idea that the Democrats created hate by pointing out what Trump has actually done or is doing is absurd. Goebbels' advice was always to accuse your enemies of that which you were guilty of, and I have no doubt that this is exactly what the Republicans in the US and the far-right here are doing. I am also sure that this will become ever more commonplace.
I will continue to say what I think to be true of Trump, as I will of others. No one can know what the price for doing so might be, but if we are forced into indifference or even silence for fear of the consequences of telling the truth, the price that we will pay will be very high indeed.
Fascism threatens us all.
We have to say so.
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100% agree. Which leaves an open question: how best to combat it.
There was a video of some US imbecile claiming that the UK, under Labour, would become the first nuclear armed Islamic nation
( https://x.com/60sJapanfan/status/1812967311500058991)
Of course this skated over the fact that Labour lost votes amongst muslim communities due to Gaza.
But facts don’t matter. Perhaps attack the fascists with their own coin?.
Use the Lyndon Johnston approach: “my opponent f..s pigs” (yep he really said it).
Whatever – but gentle jesus meek & mild ain’t going to cut it.
But Labour’s own approach to these MPs is profoundly worrying – and appears deeply anti-Islamic to me. The claim is that Labour candidates lost and others did so because of intimidation from Muslim candidates. I do nit believe that. People made a choice to reject Labour’s stance, most especially on Israel. It is very worrying that Labour is distorting the truth on this.
Mike -the Imbecile is J D Vance the Vice-Presidential nominee.
It just gets worse.
Given that the shooter appears to have been seen as a right wing loyalist by his classmates, it is possible that he saw Trump as a threat to the long-term acceptability of right wing opinions in the US.
Who knows what happens next?
We do not know what he thought
Why speculate? It doesn’t help.
We have to tackle the issues that have led to the rise of the right and the cult of the “strongman”. Unfortunately, we don’t have the politicians who will do that.
It means addressing some very fundamental issues such as poverty and inequality, uninspiring work experiences, poor housing, the proliferation of conspiracy theories and “alternative facts”, immigration and much much more.
Most politicians seem to be part of the problem, only interested in “growth” and cosying up to assorted billionaires, hypocritical in their dealings with rogue states and international law and ignoring climate change.
I fear that unless we can recruit politicians whose main concern is the welfare of all citizens then things are only going to get worse until we are hit by one of Scheidel’s horsemen (of the apocalypse).