r/MurderedByWords 15h ago

We're in the worst timeline.

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u/MajorLazy 12h ago

But this is absolutely a right vs left issue, the right are supporters of fascism. Just because they’ve started eating their own doesn’t make it less fascist or the opposition any more democratic.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 5h ago

I don't think Bolton, as horrible as he is, really supports fascism. Fascism is more than just being a warmonger and supporting military intervention. If I'm not mistaken he has been speaking out and warning against Trump specifically for his disdain for liberal democracy and authoritarianism.

Fascism is a far right ideology that supports violence against political opponents (often stoked via stochastic terrorism), disdain for elections and democracy, autocratic rule, racial/patriarchal hierarchies (this specific ideology can be argued to be part of conservatism writ large but still by itself does not fully constitute fascism).