Because he's not the establishment. The establishment is worse than Trump in the eyes of his supporters.

Trump in not electable, that said, he's bringing issues to the forefront that more tenured politicians wont ever talk about. that's why he has traction with people. TrPrado has it kinda right

http://dailycandidnews.com/wp-content/uploads/11214242_10100642519867141_1865604589451558805_n-623x630.jpg

Because no press is bad press and Fox is eating it up. There are still potentially a dozen more debates to go. Trump is notorious and is he is loving every minute of this. It's almost real to him.

almost

People want to watch a train wreck and Fox wants the ratings.

"Donald Trump is no doubt a wealthy buffoon — but he is a buffoon who understands the underlying passions of the GOP base"

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/25/donald_trump_is_an_actual_fascist_what_his_surging_popularity_says_about_the_gop_base/

This article insists on Trump and GOP not being actual fascists, but having parallels with fascism that cannot be overlooked.

I'd only add, regarding the words of Umberto Ecco, that China is a perfect working example of "absolute state control with a free market" (maybe we should question how much "free" is the "free market")

I bet Krellin would vote for Donald Trump.

What "issues" are being brought to the forefront by Trump? Please elaborate. He's just taking reactionary positions to standard GOP talking points but positioning himself as a political-correctness-be-damned blowhard who says what the "real America" is thinking. There's nothing original coming out of the Trump camp except hot air.

Apparently "nobody would even be talking about immigration" if Trump hadn't brought it up. That's what he claims, at least.

Trump is a fascist, yes. I seem to recall getting mocked for saying on this forum that fascism is increasingly a feature of political life in western countries. Meanwhile neo-Nazis in germany set fire to refugee shelters, Hungary is building a massive border wall, trump is chomping at the bit to do the same in America, and Americans are still unprepared to denounce Israel for it's colonialist settlement policies. To name a few

You should be mocked because you have no fucking clue what fascism is and means, not to mention that you are a clown

The dictionary definition is good enough for me:

"(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."

Dictator, oligarchy. Very little functional difference.

Is China dictatorship or functioning democracy?

Is the EU being run by a bunch of bureaucrats on the European Commission?

Is the two-party system in the US sham front where corporations buy powerand elections and pay for both sides so they win regardless o the vote?

I don't think fascism and corporatism are exactly the same thing. If Bernie Sanders is correct, corporations want the US population to be afraid of migrants (and allow minimum wage to drop to prevent companies heading to China) so they can focus their fear outward and ignore the injustices being done at home.

But i don't think this quiet wualifies as Fascism.

So trump would be a dictator...

No, it doesn't quiet wualify at all.

I assume that you jump on the glen beck train and say that the ussr was fascist...

Trump's troll game is so strong, and he has elevated it Jordan-like as the stakes have increased; I am constantly amazed. He's the Arnold Palmer of trolling, the Rembrandt of trolling. Students will be studying Trump in a hundred years alongside the other masters of Dada and performance art.

The USSR had many fascist elements, yes. That they used the rhetoric of communism to justify themselves is not so important. Now, I grant you, there were many substantive differences between the Soviet autocracies and the fascist countries, chiefly the role of tradition, but to prove my point, I say, look at Putin's Russia. Essentially fascist. How was that such an easy transition from the USSR 20 years ago? Because they had a form of fascism before.

And the same can be said for modern DPRK

Bottom line is: you don't have to have the surname Mussolini or Franco or Hitler to be fairly compared to a fascist.

Those guys were useful in the way that Trump is useful: they were extreme forms of what he have long had in diluted form, and so gave us a sense of the Platonic ideal or logical conclusion of what we deal with on a regular basis in more normal circumstances. Feudalism gives way to fascism, but very little substantive change takes place.

And if I was to provide my own definition of fascism it would badically be this:

A system of centralized undemocratic power in which dissent is suppressed by the creation and dissemination of an ideology or value system via propaganda, the unique features of which usually involve aggression, selfishness, military-worship, nationalism/superiority complex, and a hatred for egalitarian communities.

Fascism is the logical conclusion of backlash to the Enlightenment. It is the ultimate counter-revolution, counter-reformation, and everything else. It is on the right for a reason.

But it isn't on the right... You definition encompasses, left and right equally, WWII America according to your brain dead definition was without a doubt fascist

I guess it's less a problem of definition than application.

Your true definition would be

Fascim: (Noun) something I don't agree with

"WWII America according to your brain dead definition was without a doubt fascist"

Well, it kind of was. If the shoe fits...

Internment camps? Propaganda campaigns? We're obviously not above that stuff just because we America

And the fact that there was an attempted fascist coup before we declared war, along with all sorts of nazi sympathizers here, speaks to that quite clearly. A pity you chose such a simple example

People on all sides of politics use propaganda, there is nothing specifically fascist in character about the use of propaganda, and propaganda was used by various groups, states, and religious organisations well before the concept of fascism emerged.

What you don't understand is that fascism existed before the word did. Pharonic Egypt was fascist in many ways. Try some critical thinking: look into an ideology and identify its salient features and then think broadly about how those ideas manifest in other places. You don't have to wear a swastika to be a fascist just as you don't have to be Strom Thurmond to be a racist.

Fascist as a word is important today because of the legacy and example left by hitler. Just like how trump is showing what is so dangerous and toxic about the american far right, hitler shows us what is so dangerous and toxic about the General features of fascism.