Maria Alekhina, better known as Masha of the Russian band Pussy Riot, offered the following caution against Americans taking Donald Trump and his neo-fascist campaign lightly:
“When Putin came to his first term or second term, nobody [in Russia] actually thought that this is serious. Everybody was joking about it. And nobody could imagine
that after five, six years, we would have a war in Ukraine, annexation of Crimea, and these problems in Syria,” in which Russia has become involved. Everybody [is]
joking about Donald Trump now, but it’s a very short way from joke to sad reality when you have a really crazy president speaking about breaking every moral and
logic norm. So I hope that he will not be president. That’s very simple.”
Trump is not entertaining. He is not rebelling against a culture of oppressive political correctness. He is a fascist bully who wants nothing more than to destroy the America that we know. His strongman routine, his overtly violent supporters, and his inflammatory rhetoric all combine to focus the rage of a group of disaffected Americans who do not care about democracy or the Constitution. They want power, and they want it badly. They will do anything in order to return to a fictitious America for which they pine: an America where everyone but white men are forced to confront the reality of state-sponsored terrorism every day.
This is not funny. This is not okay. This is how fascism always begins. Fight it.
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