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Trump Is "Fascist To The Core" & "Most Dangerous" Per His Top General

Tomef

Well-Known Member
Milley is wrong. Trump isn't a fascist to the core, and Milley should know best. In the definition of fascism, reliance on and love of a strong military, is a key element. Trump hates the military (and that feeling is mutual). That makes Trump only fascistoid, even when he has all the other qualities.

Many other who served with/under Trump are coming forward to
say how bad he is for the country. But who'd know Trump better
as a Commander In Chief than Mark Milley, eh.
I wonder how the Magas will spin this one?
Excerpted....

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says​

Story by Andrew Feinberg

Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.

Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.

In the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of the then-president’s supporters, Woodward writes that Milley insisted on securing a meeting with the then-newly-minted attorney general, Merrick Garland, to urge him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.

According to Woodward, a senior Department of Justice lawyer said at the time that Milley’s sit-down with Garland might have been the first-ever meeting between a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the country’s top civilian law enforcement official. He writes that the general asked for the meeting because he was “deeply convinced” that Trump remained “a danger to the country” even though he had been forced from office after Biden’s election win.

But the Army veteran expressed even more strident concerns to Woodward himself at a March 2023 meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC.

Woodward writes that when he approached Milley at a reception, the general spoke first and told him: “We gotta talk.”

He told the journalist that “no one has ever been as dangerous to this country” as the former president.

He asked: “Do you realize, do you see what this man is?”

Milley, who had been a source for Woodward’s last book, Peril, said he’d “glimpsed” Trump’s true nature when they previously spoke during the writing of that 2021 release, but he said he now knew exactly what the ex-president is.

“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country,” he said.

“A fascist to the core,” Milley repeated.



The article continues from there.
This is maybe an overestimation of Trump's seriousness as a person. He doesn't appear to have any political convictions in the way that is usually understood, perhaps in some kind of amorphous way, but mainly he's driven by narcissism and a desperate need for adoration and attention. Everything he does and says serves that. But fascist tropes are woven into his self-serving message, especially the notion he embodies some mythical notion of 'Merica. This mythical trope is so powerful, it entirely overwhelms the ability of MAGA-ites to think any of it through. There's no incentive to, it appeals to some inexpressible need for fantasy to be real. At some point, they just entirely reject the whole idea that there is anything real other than their feelings. So, in that sense, Trump represents something at the core of all fascist movements. Politically, though, he's just a random, self-obsessed opportunist.
 

Regiomontanus

Eastern Orthodox
This is maybe an overestimation of Trump's seriousness as a person. He doesn't appear to have any political convictions in the way that is usually understood, perhaps in some kind of amorphous way, but mainly he's driven by narcissism and a desperate need for adoration and attention. Everything he does and says serves that. But fascist tropes are woven into his self-serving message, especially the notion he embodies some mythical notion of 'Merica. This mythical trope is so powerful, it entirely overwhelms the ability of MAGA-ites to think any of it through. There's no incentive to, it appeals to some inexpressible need for fantasy to be real. At some point, they just entirely reject the whole idea that there is anything real other than their feelings. So, in that sense, Trump represents something at the core of all fascist movements. Politically, though, he's just a random, self-obsessed opportunist.

No convictions - yes, that is Trump. He licks his finger and sticks it up into the (political) wind. The direction he discerns is the path that he follows. His core - rotten and only self serving.
 

Copernicus

Industrial Strength Linguist
Why should Argentina 'own' the Falklands?
Because they are very close to Argentina...
It's like France colonized the isle of Wight...and said it is French.

But it's something you cannot and will not understand.
It's in your brain. This :
The British are entitled to own the entire world. :)
The Russians are manure, so they are entitled to nothing, not even to own the regions where people speak Russian.

You have a very poor understanding of history and geography. The Isle of Wight is 3-8 kilometers from the English coast and has never been occupied by any other country. The Falklands are 1,521 kilometers from Argentina.

Argentina bases its claim on two arguments: that it inherited those islands from the Spanish crown and that it is close to them. It never occupied those islands in the past. The British claimed them in 1883 and established a colony in 1892. Only UK citizens and large colonies of penguins live there. The inhabitants are not Spanish speakers. No international body recognizes Argentina's claim. Argentina is close to a lot of territory that it does not own and has never occupied and where Argentinians do not live.
 
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This is maybe an overestimation of Trump's seriousness as a person. He doesn't appear to have any political convictions in the way that is usually understood, perhaps in some kind of amorphous way, but mainly he's driven by narcissism and a desperate need for adoration and attention. Everything he does and says serves that. But fascist tropes are woven into his self-serving message, especially the notion he embodies some mythical notion of 'Merica. This mythical trope is so powerful, it entirely overwhelms the ability of MAGA-ites to think any of it through. There's no incentive to, it appeals to some inexpressible need for fantasy to be real. At some point, they just entirely reject the whole idea that there is anything real other than their feelings. So, in that sense, Trump represents something at the core of all fascist movements. Politically, though, he's just a random, self-obsessed opportunist.
His political convictions (if they can be called that) are seizing and wielding power, and being feted by flattering acolytes. This is still very dangerous, especially for a demagogue.
 

danieldemol

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Taxpayer funded unions likely. Parasites on the working class and dosent represent the common working blue-collar worker in the least.
I don't buy the premise that being tax payer funded means they don't represent the working class, nonetheless I'm going to have to ask you for your source alleging they will be tax payer funded in my view.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I don't buy the premise that being tax payer funded means they don't represent the working class, nonetheless I'm going to have to ask you for your source alleging they will be tax payer funded in my view.
Most of the time when you hear the leftist dirtbags talk about unions they are not talking about the working class. They are talking about municipal unions, the kind of people that send money to their election war chest and in return they give them favors like giving juicy contracts and bids . That's how it works with them when they say they favor unions.
 

danieldemol

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Most of the time when you hear the leftist dirtbags talk about unions they are not talking about the working class. They are talking about municipal unions, the kind of people that send money to their election war chest and in return they give them favors like giving juicy contracts and bids . That's how it works with them when they say they favor unions.
So no source? I thought not in my view.
 

Pogo

Well-Known Member
Most of the time when you hear the leftist dirtbags talk about unions they are not talking about the working class. They are talking about municipal unions, the kind of people that send money to their election war chest and in return they give them favors like giving juicy contracts and bids . That's how it works with them when they say they favor unions.
Besides this being a made up fantasy, it just reeks of jealousy.
 

F1fan

Veteran Member

Guitar's Cry

Disciple of Pan
Obama was the drone king.

Maybe you didn't see my post:

Except he had more drone strikes in four years than Obama did in eight but no one realized it because he changed the laws on publicly reporting them: Trump Inherited the Drone War but Ditched Accountability

He also increased the US nuclear arsenal and also denied reporting on that, also a reversal of transparency: After Trump Secrecy, Biden Administration Restores US Nuclear Weapons Transparency - Federation of American Scientists

Like a lot of Trump, this antiwar persona appears to be a false image meant to hide his facism.

From the first article: "As of May 18, the Trump administration had launched 40 airstrikes in Somalia in 2020 alone. That figure is made all the more staggering by the fact that, from 2007 through 2016, the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama conducted 41 airstrikes in Somalia total, according to reporting from Airwars."

It appears to be Biden who has produced the most accountability and has scaled down American drone strikes: Biden Secretly Limits Counterterrorism Drone Strikes Away From War Zones (Published 2021)
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yes, I suppose that is where his narcissism could lead.
The one thing going for us is that he’s not a dedicated leader, in that he doesn’t accomplish much because he doesn’t work with the opposition. Thus he doesn’t portend fascism…just poor performance…with only a small risk of fascism.
 
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