The truth is, the politics in the US is very far to the social right compared to the global average, and the Trumpettes are even more far right than that.
With policies including now rounding up people who entered the country legally under the previous administration, arguably Trump policies are verging on fascist - and that’s not designed to be obtuse or insulting, it follows the actual definition of fascism.
Let’s look at some of the points:
Leadership by a high amount of executive orders points to dictatorial style of leadership and autocracy.
The pardoning of far-right violent insurrectionists, along with the removal of protection for critics of Trump, could be argued to indicate the oppression of opponents - particularly when it is being considered to launch legal campaigns against those who investigated the insurrection.
The implementation of tariffs, which will increase the price of essential items for the average American, demonstrates the belief in individual sacrifices for perceived national success.
Current actions point to a disbelief in a social security net, disbelief in the supremacy of democratic rights and disbelief in liberal/neo-liberal world order.
All of the above indicates that the Trumpettes support a fascist regime. As fascism is to the far-right of the traditional left-right political spectrum, this indicates how far to the right the American Overton Window has become and how out of sync with the developed world the current regime is.
So yeah, by that mark, even the right-wing Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom would appear, falsely, to be left-wing to a Trumpette.
That’s the issue with putting people in boxes, for the last 80 years the Conservative Party has been fiscally conservative while being socially quite liberal (certainly when compared to their contemporaries around the world), things like abortion don’t feature in Conservative policy, neither does Capital punishment.
The BNP and even the Reform types tend to be the other way, fiscally irresponsible while being socially very conservative and opposed to change “take are country back”.
I’ve been having some fun the last couple of days trying to get Deepseek to talk about the Tank Man photo.
They have a block which means it won’t give any responces on topics that the CCP don’t want to be discussed. It stars typing out then clears the message and asks if we can talk about something else!
I enjoy the challange to getting it to do it in browser. Had a few times where its written out multiple paragraphs, then realised it’s discussing something it shouldn’t then cleared the screen
Oh thank god you’ve explained the CoA acronym…
I’ve been in so many briefs etc over the past few months where this has come up and no one has explained it.
I’ve just been nodding and agreeing “ah yes, I too can use complex words and acronyms to make myself sound more photosynthesis.”
