Trump’s call to do “the unthinkable” is a fundamental principle of any notion of totalitarianism
“Donald Trump’s blatant appeal to fascist ideology and policy considerations took a more barefaced and dangerous turn this week when he released a statement calling for ‘a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.’…. Trump’s brutal racism, cruelty and Nazi-style policy recommendations are more than shocking; they are emblematic of totalitarianism’s hatred of liberalism, its call for racial purity, its mythic celebration of nationalism, its embrace of violence, its disdain for weakness and its anti-intellectualism….Totalitarianism is not simply a relic of the past. It lives on…”
Read the entire essay, “Fascism in Donald Trump’s United States,” in Truthout.org
And look for Henry A. Giroux’s latest book, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press: America’s Addiction to Terrorism
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