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meadowlander

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5. The majority of Americans think "fascists" is hyperbolic.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 02:47 PM
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For better or worse, 35+ years of the Internet slinging around "You sound like Hitler" has dulled people's ability to understand fascism when it is staring them in the face. They just think Democrats are exaggerating again when they use terms like that.

The majority of people still think fascism couldn't happen here, because they never learned about the history of fascist and fascist-adjacent movements in the US.

Everyone who made it through 3rd grade (with some embarrassing exceptions in our current government) knows that we used to have a king, that it was bad, and that the point of America is to not have a king.

And we have to be attracting the widest possible swath of people to these rallies.

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