<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span></span></i></font><div><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I've been reading 'The Five Stages of Fascism' by Robert Paxton, and it seems to me that John Clarks' labelling of the Republican party as the 'Fascist party ' isn't quite accurate. Whie Trump is a republican, not all republicans are trumpicans. It's Trump and his fervent supporters that are the clear fascists, but you can't tar all republicans with the same brush.</i></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">Today</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>I can tar<span class="gmail_default" style=""> every single Republican who currently holds elective office with the same brush because <u>ALL of them</u>, without exception, are either rabid Trump supporters or, at the very least, Trump enablers. </span>All <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>Republicans that still retained even a trace of integrity<span class="gmail_default" style=""> had been voted out of office several years ago. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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