Trumps’s Report Card: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

Trumps’s Report Card: Early Warning Signs of Fascism
National Holocaust Museum Washington DC

A report Card on Donald J Trump after 60 days

  1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
    What can be worse
    Than America First?
    And the vile Muslim ban
    Signifies a grand plan
  2. Disdain for human rights
    Racist provocation was an underlying theme
    And his election to the Klan a beautiful dream
  3. Identifying enemies as a unifying cause
    Unfair is a constant refrain
    Today it’s the press
    Yesterday the CIA
    And Bannon’s Muslim hate
    Is based on the “Camp of The Saints” screed
    So vile to you I would not read
  4. Supremacy of the military
    Civilian control of the military is a tradition
    The violation of which can lead to perdition
    For hero worship
    Can lead to military dictatorship
    One general noting Trumps chaos has stated
    What has not been said before:
    Subtly warning that we are at war.
    Trump has four generals of dubious acumen
    As one we know botched a raid in Yemen
  5. Rampant sexism
    With Trumps pussy snatching history
    It remains to me a puzzling mystery
    How sanctimonious Christians
    Justify their Trump addiction
  6. Controlled mass media
    Trump has launched a war against the press
    Excoriating them as liars
    And the NY Times the paper of record
    Is a Failing paper as he sows discord
    And on the campaign cleverly
    He turned to the press and incited contempt
    So that some were fearful for their safety
    And by branding the media as “fake news”
    He is assuring his follower’s believe only his views
  7. Obsession with national security
    Increasing the military budget is an economic move
    But securing our borders will be hard to improve
    And raids as in Yemen- it’s been said before
    Create facilely enemies galore
  8. Corporate power protected
    One thing we can surely say
    His programs for business are a give-away
  9. Labor power suppressed
    Clearly his agenda includes
    Right to Work Laws
    The intent of which is to dilute
    The power of unions to progress
  10. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
    The destruction of the Bon-Wit sculpture
    Demonstrates he is a culture vulture
    And his anti-intellectualism and anti-science is a pathetic joke
    As to him global warming is a Chinese hoax
  11. Obsession with crime and punishment
    And Trump’s acronymic VOICE program’s not intelligent
    Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement
    A registry of immigrant crime reminiscent of a prior time
    The Nazi publication of so called Jewish crime
    And Trump’s embellishment is bizarre and most chilling
    The addition of Muslim honor killing
    A crime so rare that Trump’s only intent
    I s anti Muslim sentiment to foment.

So this is my appraisal after about 60 days That Trump for incipient Facism deserves an “A”

Howard P. Charman, MD 3-16-2017

Juan Gonzalez Democracy Now 2-2-2017 The Dejudification of the Holocaust


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