My counterargument is: look at those town halls, including recent ones. And prices on “quaint” groceries are going to continue to go up, and Maxwell hasn’t been formally pardoned yet (they are just doing a trial balloon with her Club Fed stay, to TRY and get MAGAs used to the idea…) What’s missing from a discussion in the media is that she threatened the lives of some of the victims when they told her they were consulting with a lawyer.
And I don’t see how Israel is not going to drag the US into forcing more subsidies for them.
It will be an amazing study in cuckdom (a term MAGAs are so quick to fling…) if there is no impeachment. Yeah, Repubs don’t want to do it -but will their constituents force them??
So, has Ana reversed herself on this matter? Does she still think that Trump is not a fascist? Does anyone know? This is the stand she made a year ago that Trump does not represent a fascist threat.
Is Trump Fascist?
Historian Daniel Bessner joins Unaligned to discuss whether Trump really poses a fascist threat to America
Ana Kasparian
and Daniel Bessner
Oct 31, 2024
She did take back those comments around the start of the year. No idea what ep but she literally admitted she was pretty much wrong and mightve said sorry cant remember exact words.
Ok edit- its an easy youtube search “did Ana kasparian say she was wrong about trump” . Plenty of channels have covered what was said. Basically saying that YES trump is implementing 2025, a fascist step by step guide noone disputes that fact, and she didnt think he would go full fascist because she thought his base would hate it.
Hi, thanks,
I see her admitting that she was completely wrong (and she certainly was, and it was notable when she was wrong, I thought at the time) about whether Trump would implement Project 2025. At the start of this video, for example.
I have only watched a few minutes of this (so I could re-verify the point about Project 2025). I am unable to find readily (so I don’t have to go searching through hours of video) where she says something clearly and explicitly about whether she thinks she wrong when she claimed in October of 2024 that Trump should not be seen as a fascist. .
As to whether Project 2025 is inline with a move toward fascism, I think it is, but I do not think it is widely understood or universally agreed. I do think political analysis experts should understand it for what it is, but in this case, given how much Ana pushed back against the idea that Trump is a fascist, I want it to be more clear whether she is changing her view on this specific point.
Ana went well out of her way, in October of 2024, to push back against the idea that Trump is fascist:
Is Trump Fascist?
Historian Daniel Bessner joins Unaligned to discuss whether Trump really poses a fascist threat to America
Ana Kasparian
and Daniel Bessner
Oct 31, 2024
So, if she has changed her mind about this, then I’d like to know of a link and a time stamp where she says it, so I could be clear on the matter. I do think her admitting that she was wrong about Project 2025 is a step for her in the right direction.
Let me see if I can say a few things on this topic that are different from the one-note approach I’ve been taking of asking when Ana would revise the views she took on her substack:
I generally am more sympathetic to the old-school Republicans than to the Democrats, and I am sympathetic to voters and analysts who are struggling with a way to make clear to our fellow citizens that we are not aligned with many of the basic premises of the Democrats. I think that Americans from birth should generally be expected to stand on our own two feet, and that the government is generally not there to play Robin Hood with money.
Trump is very good at making a show of defending individual liberties, free markets, business and other values that many old School Republicans might find to be something they want to defend However, he does not,in reality, have a priority of defending these things. On the contrary, he is banking on his ability to fool desperate Republicans into thinking he is defending these things, and meanwhile he is making a mockery of defending them.
There is a difference between a government which defends individual liberties and a right to do business, and a government which is fascist. For the most part, Trump ultimately chooses the latter while making a show of choosing the former. I’d like to urge that Ana and others do better and not be so gullible when it comes to understanding this.
Trump was called a Fascist to his face by Mamdani when a reporter asked: Trump said “t’s ok, just say it. It’s easier than explaining it.” before Mamdani can answer.
This was a golden opportunity for Mamdani to EXPLAIN in his face in front of the world why Trump is Fascist but Trump stopped him. This is a stellar example of why this administration loves the uneducated. Why allow someone to educate the masses right in front of you?Trump simply cut him off and dodged a bullet. He’s sees the political shift after the Mamdani win in NYC and took the first opportunity he could to muzzle him. Mamdani should have explained regardless.
There was some pretty good discussion yesterday on my live TYT feed, by Cenk, as to Trump being an authoritarian. Cenk said he didn’t particularly care about arguing the point either way as to whether Trump is a fascist. He laid out a bit that there are folks who oppose Trump being called a fascist, and Cenk indicated that his main point is that Trump is an authoritarian, and whether that must include the word fascist just didn’t sound like an argument that was so worth it to him. Likewise, for those of us who think that Trump must be labeled a fascist, Cenk also didn’t really care that much to argue the point.
I didn’t catch the whole thing, and can’t go back and listen as I don’t know where it is, but I was glad to hear the discussion. Please make it an occasional topic, as to Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, and please invite an occasional expert guest on the show, such as Timothy Snyder, to discuss exactly in which ways Trump is an authoritarian.
As to Cenk’s point, I personally tend to think of Trump as a fascist type, but I also don’t think it’s the key point worth arguing, and we should recognize that opponents of the rule of law in the US have mastered dragging us all into unimportant debates. This is not to say I think it’s pointless to discuss whether Trump is a fascist type authoritarian, but the main point is to recognize that we have a President who has contempt for the rule of law and who manifests daily relentless bad intentions toward The Constitution he’s sworn (that’s a joke, right? that we would take his word under oath for his intentions?) to protect.
