antifainternational:

What would it take for us to realize that the President isn’t a fascist?   Oh, man, that’s such a good question!  Let’s see:

More specifically:

-he’d have to not have been forced to sign an agreement to not discriminate against black people after the Department of Justice successfully sued him for refusing to rent apartments to black tenants and lying to black applicants.  

-he’d have to not have ordered his casinos to remove black staff from his view when he entered the building.

-he’d have to not have taken full page ads out in newspapers calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five – four racialized teenagers falsely accused of the vicious rape and near-murder of a jogger.  And he’d have to admit today that he was wrong about their guilt.  

-the whole calling Mexicans drug-smuggling rapists thing would have to not have happened.  

–the Muslim ban would have to not have happened.

-he’d have to not regularly retweet an rebroadcast talking points from white supremacist extremists.

-he would have had to condemn the white supremacist violence an terrorist attack in Charlottesville in 2017 instead of victim-blaming and implying that neo-nazis were morally equivalent to those opposed to neo-nazis.

-he would have had to refrain from continually attacking NFL players exercising their first amendment rights in protest of police murders of black people. 

-he would have to have not said that people coming to the U.S. from Haiti “all ahve AIDS or that people from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.

-He would have to not have referred to Haiti and countries in Africa as “shithole countries” and lament the fact that fewer people from white, European countries were immigrating to the U.S. 

-He would have to not have made a career out of stiffing creditors or running a scam university.

-He would have not not have a history of sexually assaulting women which he boasts about.

-He would have to not have lied about seeing thousands of Muslim Americans cheering when the World Trade Center fell.

-He would have to have not mocked a disabled person during one of his rallies.

-He would have to not have encouraged his supporters to physically attack protestors or pledge to pay for their legal defense if they were arrested for doing so.

-He would have to not have used progaganda strategies and terms from the Nazi Germany playbook like calling the media “fake news.”

-He would have to not have used white supremacist Darren Beattie as his speech writer.

-He would have to not have hired white supremacist Ian M. Smith as a policy analyst.

-He would have to not have hired white supremacist Larry Kudlow as his economic advisor.

-He would have to not have hired racist immigration consultant Stephen Miller.

-He would not have hired alt-right white supremacist and anti-semite Steve Bannon to manage his election campaign or as a top aide afterwards.

-He would not have hired Hungarian neo-nazi Sebastian Gorka as an advisor.

-He would have to not being using his position as President to enrich himself by doing things like insisting that all government staff stay in Trump hotels when traveling or overcharging the Secret Service for space in his properties.

-He would have to not appoint unqualified family members like his daughter or son-in-law to important positions in his administration.

-He would have to not have ordered state agents to kidnap children from their parents, hold them in concentration camps, and then “lose track” of at least 1500 of them.

-He would have to not be taking steps to deny citizenship rights to and deport native-born Americans who are Latino and live too close to the Mexican border.  

-He would have to not be signing more executive orders than any other president in living memory.

-He would have to not have ordered a pointless multimillion dollar military parade or the creation of the “space force.” 

-He would have to not have declared his own inauguration day “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.”

If none of that had happened, then we’d see that Trump probably isn’t a fascist.  But that all happened.  So.