Summary

Democrats’ calls for unity are futile as Republicans, driven by fascist ideology, seek to suppress differences and maintain power through fear-mongering.

The Republican National Convention showcased this with chants of “fight fight fight” and speeches that vilified perceived enemies.

Trump and his supporters use “unity” as a euphemism for conformity, expecting marginalized groups to suppress their identities.

MAGA’s reliance on “enemies” fuels a cycle of manufactured outrage, and warns that Democrats’ calls for civility may inadvertently enable fascist tactics.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Weren’t the Democrats the ones calling this election “the only way to save democracy?” Wasn’t Donald Trump a fascist who was going to destroy the country and kill people? And now we need to “bring down the temperature?”

    Either they were lying before, or they’re lying now.

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      4 days ago

      Who was the party threatening to use the military on their opposition? The democrats don’t have faith this will work, their only hope to avoid a night of long knives is to pray they were wrong. I don’t think they were though

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      3 days ago

      You are a fool if you can’t see the difference between “vote for our candidate to save democracy” and “we need to use the military against our enemies from within”.

      Either you’re arguing in bad faith comrade, or you’re one of the useful idiots that helped Trump get into office.

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        3 days ago

        If Trump is really a threat to democracy the only explanation I have for the Democrat’s behavior is that they don’t really care that much about it.

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      Exactly. We heard this rhetoric for years and it’s like “OK and… you’re just going to run Biden’s animated corpse against him?”

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        And then after the election we need to “bring down the temperature.”

        Either they’re an existential threat to democracy or they’re not. If they are Democrats should start acting like it.