In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism - The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter. <<< Population adopts Trumpisms for the past 11 years, mimicking his use of Twitter social media to gain popularity and power over others, Twitter-thinking and anti-understanding anti-comprehension like Donald Trump does, this did not just start 100 days ago, it has been long over a decade
Donald Trump never was funny, he never tells jokes, Donald Trump and his cult of supporters follow Kremlin media techniques of “Contradictory Vaudeville”, Donald Trump’s White House and Elon Musk Twitter use absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd jokes as a form of winning hearts and minds to Russia, and nobody has been able to resist it, the entire population flocks to mocking and mockery, adopting Donald Trump’s Twitter-thinking and Tweet-length values systems.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194463/100-days-trump-clown-show-fascism
Michael Tomasky
April 28, 2025
“In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism”
“The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.”
Remember how April 2 was “Liberation Day”? That was the day Donald Trump announced his tariff regime; it was, I think, the third grand announcement out of about six total. I know you remember it—the shock to the markets created headlines that are hard to forget.
What you may not remember is that it was also Trump’s second Liberation Day. The first, I was reminded recently as I reread his inaugural address while reflecting on the administration’s 100-day mark that arrives this week, was Inauguration Day itself: “That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day.”
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Michael Tomasky - April 28, 2025 : “In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism”
This is a fundamental ignorance, a complete failure on the part of Michael Tomasky’s education. This assertion “Trump Has Invented Something New” is one more denial of a book published more than a decade ago:
“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014
REPEATING: that book has been at the Public Library and Book Stores for more than ten years, an entire decade, Donald Trump did not invent this 100 days ago in January 2025.
It’s actually terrifying. Imagine the people deciding whether or not to kill you, are too stupid to be reasoned with.
Imagine the people deciding whether or not to kill you, are too stupid to be reasoned with.
That was essentially the problem in the Middle Ages of Europe, before the Enlightenment. When The Church and Kings and Queen systems education values had been so bad for so long people had to basically assert science from the bottom-up of society and make the case for learning, education, humanism. We are facing that very situation in USA now in late April 2025.
“February 23, 2017 — George Q. Daley, the new head of Harvard Medical School Harvard scientist worries we’re ‘reverting to a pre-Enlightenment form of thinking’”
Welcome back to the Dark Ages.
I don’t think we ever left it.
The whole “conservative vs. liberal”, “left vs right” bi-polar thinking seems more about maintaining Dark Ages anti-understanding or something. I find American conservatives worship technology, they adopt any machine system / computer system they can find, the only “conservative” Americans I have met are Amish in Indiana and Pennsylvania (I lived with them in Grabill Indiana).
How can anyone consider Donald Trump a “conservative”? He has been parading around the world stage since 2012 to become President, and in none of that time has he been a “conservative”.
Welcome back to the Dark Ages.
Is it because Donald Trump has a $59.99 Bible, that makes him a “conservative”, but Bible verse Matthew 6:5 and Bible verse “1 John 3:17” both spell out that Donald Trump does not have love in his heart. It’s a failure of literacy with the Bible, a reading comprehension problem to skip past important verses.
He is a Playboy that has private jets, lives in a Penthouse in NYC.
Being deceptive and misleading does not make you a “conservative”, it makes you inauthentic. The Amish in Indiana I grew up with are not inauthentic. Believing Fox News HDTV doesn’t make you a “conservative”, it means you prefer fiction television and drama instead of reality news (non-fiction) about the real world.
That is what the “Dark Ages” were, people who avoided reality in favor of fiction storytelling. They didn’t understand germs and diseases, they didn’t even know to wash your hands to stop spreading disease in a hospital.
Is that the “Dark Ages” that RFK Jr, Donald Trump and others are conserving?
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995
