I know this has been debated a lot during his first term but I’m interested in your thoughts now.

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    So the Czar was fascist? King Leopold of Belgium was fascist? King Friedrich the Great was fascist?

    It really does matter for circumventing or over-ruling the constitutional order that you have another “card” to play that your paramilitary is independently answerable to you and not just because your guy is currently head of state.

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      i didn’t say police = fascism i critiqued using nonstate paramilitaries as a definitional point of fascism. a recurring point of ICE using unmarked personnel is to grant carte blanche to nonstate actors–what a comfort it will be to be black bagged by a neonazi with the reassurance it isnt fascism since a three-letter agency did it first