USA under presidency of a know-nothing, neo-fascist, racist, sexist, mobbed-up narcissist!!

[Peter Lemkin]

1.] I rarely - and think most others who post here rarely - take the same kind of care as one would if writing a formal talk or book in the exacting wording used. That said, I'm still happy calling Trump and a lot on the far Right in the USA and elsewhere fascists even if they hated Hitler or don't seem to resemble him in all ways....there are too many parallels in ideas and methods.

2.] I find no problem in comparing Trump with Nero, but Caligula was little different. The fall of Imperial Rome is now happening in its modern form in the USA, IMO, and Trump is only one of its manifestations - not its only one by far. Fascism has been creeping into USA life from before WW2 and picked up pace rapidly since the end of that War...one of many signs of this was the National Security State's 'romance' with ex-Nazis and use of them for many purposes.

3] Language at best is shorthand for ideas, and definitions of words both change and are often contested as to their meaning.

4] Trump has uniquely divided the Nation as it has never been since the Civil War. His base includes the Wallace racist voters and their 'kin'; the downtrodden and confused by the propaganda that the other - not the US political/financial elites are to blame for most woes; he knows how to confuse many and create division and hate; he is totally corrupt and only interested in enriching himself and his mafia family and friends. He is destroying what little was left of democracy and polity in the USA. He must be removed and fast - then we need to destroy both of the two American business and National Security State parties and replace them....or the US is going the way of Imperial Rome - but much quicker!