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Well of course it does. MAGA and trump always played around with it as if it was a joke, that’s why they got away with it so far. Now that any possible hint that it could be a joke got ripped away and Harris wisely highlighted it and called it out, the joke is over.

Trump’s a fascist, and wants everything that represents. Destruction of democracy, removal of personal rights, no representation of the people within government, persecution of every minority, poor state policies that run the country into the ground…actually lets expand on this.

Fascism is especially bad at running countries. Germany was in dire straits when Hitler took control, but he made it worse, not better. Sure, things looked up for a bit because he started a “war economy” but the problem with those is that they run on the government racking up debt. A more recent example is Putin and how badly run Russia is and how its economy continuously does worse and worse. Another reason for this is fascism works off a circle of powerful people who are the “inside crowd” and in trump’s case this is spuriously called Trump World. Putin’s got his sycophants too. But these insiders need favors, power and money to stay loyal, and fascism’s nature encourages excess in these allies of Dear Leader. As the kleptocracy grows, ordinary citizens stagnate faster and faster, lose jobs, lose money, suffer. The citizenship becomes enraged. What’s a dictator to do?

War. Whip up racism and other hatreds, aim them at other countries, place a “enemy” for people to direct their anger and frustration at. Hitler chose, well, everybody. Because that’s eventually what it will take. Trump and the GOP chose LGBTQ+. But they will also choose minorities: Hispanic, black, Jewish(of course), Asian, all in due course. If they run out, they might even start going after “lesser” white people…or people of the “wrong” religion. They won’t stop hurting people and oppressing them because fascism *needs* enemies to work, because it can’t run a country properly. Nothing based upon corruption can.

So that’s why Trump is finally feeling this. MAGA can’t mock people for calling them nazis and fascists now - because that’s exactly what they are. They overplayed their hand. And John Kelly did the right thing and outed them before they were ready.