Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism

When we approach the anniversary of the 2024 elections, it seems as good time as anyone to ask: “Is it happening here?” Can we significantly call the second Trump administration a fascist regime? For most random observers, these are not many questions. As you should call it in masks and in the form of federal police show At the political action for the opposition politician? Either if the president essentially announces martial law in capital? Or, about this when the executive is trying amplify His cultural policy in the field of universities and museums in the country? And what else to call it when the administration tries cook Unemployment numbers to hide a fought economic picture? How do you call it when the senior assistant white house speak They “look” by stopping the Habeas housing? Either if the government deport People without the proper process in the camps that go beyond the rule of law where are interned under -torture? Petratus will still protest that this detail does not correspond to historically, and that it is not as cruel, dramatic and comprehensive as Hitlerism or Muzalia, but they really can no longer talk about their opponents as hysteria or alarm. They must admit the alarm was somewhat justified. Of course, it’s all or some version.

In The New York TimesJamale Bu note About how the president relies on the standards of expulsion and emergency to justify these unusual expansion of power. It is precisely the appropriate, proposed by the evil genius of Nazi jurisprudence, Karl Schmidt, who stated that sovereignty is an opportunity to decide what was an exception from the rule of law and act accordingly. Schmidt also demanded periodic identification of internal enemies and their vigorous persecution as a way to healthy politics – another feature of the fascist power that Trump and his gang are restorationThrough anything, but, but a veiled images of immigrants and nonsense residents of the city, like maniacs, murderers and urgent threats to civil peace and order.

But there is still something so cheap and noticeable, something so clearly hollow and experienced in this mode that it gives it the name of the great historical tragedy, as “fascism” – or even the terrible name “dictatorship”, referring to how the concentrated use of terror and strength is a contract that it does not deserve. The regime can be authoritarian for its purposes, but it cannot be said that it will be totalitarian, except that the most novel fans are in the dreams: political life and pluralism, and are unlikely to be put down completely. Trump may wish to form reality for his whims, but he cannot; Gravity is over -holding, and surveys are there going down. I understand fluctuations to reward Trump administration with a sign of fascist shame, especially if it wants it so badly to be perceived as something formidable and terrible. Everything seems to be a spectacle. Why do you really perceive it so seriously when its attempt cow Los -Angeles in submission with military occupation stabbed? Do you put on what is massive agglomeration of rackets and scams, led by the main racket, more al-kapon than Il Dis, in the world drama? Why contribute to the climate of the numbness of conspiracy speculation, which turned out to be so important for the rise of Trump, giving it additional Hocus-Pocus air?

Perhaps the best words for all this are the old terms “tyrant” and “tyranny”. Tyranny, because Plato’s first official explanation Republicsuggests fundamental disorder and irrationality. The totalitarian regime pursues the world of a terrible ideological sequence, destroying the merciless logic of everything that prevents – but the tyrant is arbitrary and incontinence, subjected to naughty admiration and appetite. According to Aristotle, the tyrant manages only in accordance with his own interests, without listening to any concept of greater good. Thus, the tyrant treats the policy, the republic, as a giant expansion of one’s home. That’s just what Trump that was fair accused Trying to create a “holding” system. Commentators often remark that Trump is “transaction” and that it works in the world “zero”. Another way to do this is that he is quite favorable in his relationship with others: he uses them. Again, this is typical of a classic tyrant who cannot have true friends with whom he shares the overall goal; He only sees pawns that will move, and potential competitors should be cows. The prevailing selfishness of tyrants eats the communal life of the whole people: they all refer to each other as objects that need to be disposed or controlled. It plays in the hope of private benefits and fear of private loss. Thus, the public order that bends its will becomes a world of people concerning only their own private needs, which are detached from fear and loneliness and cannot act in a concert – that is, to act politically. And this fits Trump tyrant is just great.

How to end the tyranny? Bad – for tyrants and, unfortunately, also for their subjects. The law on juggling the tyrant, its constant need for operation, bribery, blackmail, flattery, insults, injuries and intimidation of its subjects, eventually dilutes the hatred that leads to the fall of its regime either through the conspiracies of its former fans or the uprising of the people. But the person also presents that a tyrant when he is old and unusable, sometimes just die. We need so lucky.