• semioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    I don’t see this having popular support [since when does that matter?]. Maybe I am being too generous but the Republican voters, despite being braying hogs, don’t see themselves as Nazis and having the sec state pull folks’ passports for speech is a little on the nose. So this overtly fascist policy might create some friction with the conservatives who broadly - in my estimation and I may be wrong - are allergic to seeing themselves as fascist.

    doesn’t matter, they’ll support it. They might not see themselves as fascist but they also don’t see fascist policy as either fascist or a bad thing. As long as trump admin isn’t saying “Yeah we got this policy from the 3rd reich” they’ll be onboard. And even then…

    • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 days ago

      Agree, the morning hours caught me too generous, I will harden my heart lol.

      they also don’t see fascist policy as either fascist or a bad thing.

      Yeah, austerity budgets, anti-LGBT, anti-homeless policies … iM OnLy AgAiNsT iLlEgAliMmIgRaNtS … all fash policies that the supporters get surprised to be labeled thus for supporting. And to not seeing it is a bad thing, I suppose they get very defensive trying to avoid that label but only see it as a slur or a smear applied to them and not a real descriptor of policies.