From Goldwater to Trump to DeSantis, each 'fascist' was going to be worse than the 'fascist' before. Yet, despite these warnings and doomsday predictions, here we are, in 2022, still waiting for the advent of the Fourth Reich, cwtremo writes.
Last week, Robert Reich, former secretary of labor during the Clinton administration, tweeted,"Just wondering if 'DeSantis' is now officially a synonym for 'fascist.'" Later in the week, President Joe Biden, once touted as the great unifier, referred to former President Donald Trump and his supporters as "semi-fascist.
A few years after that, the target was Richard Nixon. Nixon's reputation is forever tarnished in history because of the Watergate scandal. Yet, until then, he was viewed as a political force. In December 1973, theCall published an article titled"Dump Nixon! Stop the fascist tide." One does not have to go into great detail about its contents to describe the editorial. Then, after Nixon won the presidency in 1968, late Sen. Paul Wellstone said Nixon"was a fascist pig.
Additionally, in the Gerald Ford Library museum, a document describes an interaction with a woman in 1975 in which Ford was harassed and repeatedly called a"fascist" and a"fascist pig." Then, there was Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad. He featured artwork of Reagan devising a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall. Esquire magazine featured an article by Harry Stein, who claimed that people who supported Reagan were like the"good Germans" in"Hitler's Germany."
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