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His incoherent and contradictory utterances have one thing in common: They provoke and play on feelings of resentment and disdain, intermingled with bits of fear, hatred and anger... he has tapped into is what the founders most feared when they established the democratic republic: the popular passions unleashed, the “mobocracy".. Successful fascism was not about policies but about the strongman... Whatever the problem, he could fix it...
To understand how such movements take over a democracy, one only has to watch the Republican Party today...every political figure confronts a stark choice: Get right with the leader and his mass following or get run over... once in power, Trump will owe them and their party nothing... if he wins the election, his legions will likely comprise a majority of the nation. Imagine the power he would wield then.
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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html.