Rising fascism in the US

The sloppy comment about Mexicans by Trump received a lot of pushback. You can observe in the media and the streets, when he makes these sloppy, hyperbolic, catch-all statements, he's met with resistance.

Police in St Louis, Missouri, have come under fire for chanting after clearing protests over the acquittal of an officer who shot dead a black man.
The chant, "whose street, our street", is a phrase often repeated by those demonstrating against the verdict.
Jason Stockley, 36, was cleared on Friday of murdering Anthony Lamar Smith, 24, who was fatally shot after a police pursuit in 2011.
More than 120 people were arrested after a third night of raucous protests.
Hundreds of police dressed in riot gear patrolled downtown St Louis on Sunday night, making arrests and seizing at least five weapons, Police Chief Lawrence O'Toole said early on Monday.
"I'm proud to tell you the city of St Louis is safe and the police owned tonight," he said at a news conference. "We're in control. This is our city and we're going to protect it."
Hours earlier, some members of the police department sparked outrage when they were heard chanting, "whose street, our street," after breaking up demonstrations, according to US media reports.
St Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson, who first reported the chant, tweeted the commander at the scene did not hear the chant, but said it was not acceptable and he would address it.
Mr Carson also tweeted footage purporting to show police officers chanting the phrase.

You can dispute the facts as much as you want, just don't expect the rest of us to see you as anything other than a Nazi sympathiser, because that's what Nazi sympathisers do.

BillW wrote:

These parties rallies are marginalized by counter protests that are always many times more massive. They haven't got any traction - except now with tRump one of them. This is a situation we haven't faced before. Time will tell.

Still, your historical experience with McCarthyism may explain your ferrocious support to free speech now: a few decades ago, the US was jailing hundreds of American people and destroying the careers and lives of thousands just because they were leftists. That must be traumatic. Hence all the "slipery slope" talk. You've been on that slope not so long ago.

Just like Europe's historical experience with nazism made her alergic to nazi speech.

Our police have been getting away with murder since Jim Crow, probably before...

Sorry, i meant the US historical experience with McCartyism, not your personal one.

And now you're bleating because you're called out.

To be labeled a McCarthyite for most people is an insult.

jimwg, it is a DAMNED SHAME that Joe McCarthy was CRUCIFIED for trying to “out” these disloyal Communists LOONS in the 1950s, because it is obvious in retrospect that he was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT about them and their enthusiastic cooperation with the COMMUNISTS to undermine and DESTROY our country and our liberties.

Old Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy, derided and ridiculed as he was, was in the end dead right. The Government, Hollywood, Unions and the North Eastern elites were chock full of communists.

History is repeating itself.

It’s all eerily similar to a claim made by a U.S. senator in Wheeling, W.Va., 65 years ago: “I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party.” Sen. Joe McCarthy never revealed where he got that list; the number changed from 205 all the way down to seven, and he never provided any concrete evidence. But, as Trump knows, McCarthy’s lack of evidence was no hindrance to tapping into the fears of a portion of the U.S. electorate. In those days, communists were coming for you; now, Muslims and immigrants are, and in both cases, the U.S. government won’t stop them. The message remains: Be afraid.

Who decides why someone does it?