Sure, I see ultranationalism. And if I squint, I can see that a huge chunk of the US population is pro-Trump, but that's not culty overall.

You can still speak against him, as far as I can tell. Compare this to, say, Mao Zedong. If you spoke against him, your life was forfeit, and even that's not fascism.

If this is one of those fuzzy definitions, it definitely isn't on the strong side. Where is the rampant militarism, the worship of death, and of the military?

Where is the rampant militarism

ICE budget increases.

NG deployed domestically several times.

Renaming DoD to DoW.

Invasion of ~2 sovereign nations

There's been quite a lot of worship of the military in america... Also haven't armed forces been deployed domestically a few times in the current presidency?

the worship of death? try all the videos of 'lethal kinetic strikes' on speedboats

> Where is the rampant militarism

ICE

> rampant militarism, the worship of death, and of the military?

See: the recent events in Minneapolis and the massive increase in funding for ICE. You don't have to look very hard to see what the new brownshirts are doing in blue cities and the MAGAs covering for them.

Oh also the federalization of the National Guard and US Marine deployment to Los Angeles. Things move quickly and people forget but that's exactly their playbook: flooding the zone with so much shit that it's hard to keep track.

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