@Cassiodorus

and repeated them or strung them together, as it were, without too much analysis of what they meant.

You just aren't used to engaging with someone who isn't a simpleton partisan. You have forgotten how to engage with someone who can hold two different ideas in their head at the same time. You have also forgotten that you probably should at least attempt to back up claims about people before dismissing them altogether. (and no, I did NOT do that to you, but maybe I should)

#2 and repeated them or strung them together, as it were, without too much analysis of what they meant. This can be hazardous when discussing Trump's misdeeds, as Team Biden (with mass media, Dem party, and alphabet agencies in tow) have deeply polluted the atmosphere for American political discussion. So, also, for instance you have Ralph Nader, repeated in Counterpunch:

A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

What Trump is in fact threatening to do is, through DOGE, crash the economy, as Yves Smith points out. This is, to be sure, also a bad outcome. But it is not as if America's teenagers are being forced at gunpoint to join the Trump Youth. Nor is it as if some ostensibly genuine opposition is being suppressed within the US government, and here one recalls that under Mussolini's regime, whence the name Fascist, the rather prominent Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci was in fact a member of Parliament. Or if you want a German equivalent, there's always the story of Ernst Thälmann, unfortunate victim of Hitler. We have no such equivalent here in the US. Perhaps we might cry foul at today's censorship, largely privatized, as an element of Fascism, but that isn't what Nader discussed in Counterpunch.

So, in short, we have Nader now unwittingly repeating Team Biden talking points about Trump. But this isn't an ideological misstep on his part so much as it is an omission of the extent to which Team Biden was previously granted, and seized, enormous reserves of power, and the extent to which they screwed America and the world with that power. This is our context.