As The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg wrote in January, “For the last decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.”
The “debate” isn’t a debate in the normal sense of the word. That is, it wasn’t a good faith disagreement between two sides weighing evidence. It was a decade-long screaming fest from half the country who insisted that anyone they disagreed with politically was Hitler. Of course now more than ever we know that it was simply their way of trying to retain power and keep it out of the hands of Republicans, because when presented with an actual Nazi, Democrats have suddenly lost an appetite for “debate.” In fact, Goldberg herself emphatically declared: “Graham Platner is no Nazi.”
