Are The Fascist Labels Really Too Much?

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Words count. Listen to these words – trojan horse, cancer from within, secret constant plotting – and see if they don’t sound like speeches from the 1930s or dark words spoken before leaders do horrible things.

This is Trump from this morning on Fox and Friends.

“They’re here. And I’ve been saying. This is going to be like the Trojan horse. We’re letting tens of thousands of people flow into this country and they are bringing in, in many cases, this is cancer from within. This is something that’s going to be so tough and you know they stay together, so nobody really knows who it is, what’s happening. They are plotting. They keep plotting, and this has been going on for so long and everybody knows it and the good law enforcement, we have such great people. That’s the best thing we have going is that we have great law enforcement. They know about it.”

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