Opinion: Trump isn't Mussolini. Virtue signaling about fascism shows liberals' ignorance.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : White voters with no college degree voted for Trump by 34 percentage points.
46% : I must point out, however: Why is it that when Trump campaigned on lower taxes, a secure border, orderly immigration, a peaceful geopolitical climate and a stronger economy, most of the legacy news media and Democrats scoffed?
41% : "For journalists and others to perpetuate the idea that Trump will ship his critics to a gulag is asinine.
36% : Opinion: Voters strongly rebuke Democrats by electing Trump.
35% : In some cases, the people who are now melting down don't respect anyone who voted for Trump.
31% : For years, I've been told that if Trump wins, he'll destroy democracy and send journalists and political dissidents to the gulag.
30% : Those were for sure stupid statements from Trump and his team.
30% : Opinion: I don't like Trump, but I'm voting for him.
30% : Claiming on social media that Trump is Hitler while sipping a latte at Starbucks sounds a lot like virtue signaling, not a true belief.
29% : There's another extreme claim Democrats have made about Trump.
29% : Trump is no Benito Mussolini, and the United States is not Italy in the 1930s.
28% : Will Trump throw journalists in the gulag?
26% : The checks and balances that exist in the courts, in law enforcement and in other flawed but functional institutions would stop him from violating the Constitution - and most Americans, including those who voted for Trump this week, understand that.
25% : The mainstream news media had a meltdown after Trump won.
25% : Trump often behaved in a way that was unbecoming of a world leader - it's why I hesitated to vote for him - but he was no fascist.
25% : If Trump were a fascist, he would have halted presidential elections when he was in the White House the first time.
22% : If Trump were actually a fascist, why didn't he act like it when he previously was the commander in chief?
21% : A Politico headline on Wednesday reads, "Trump promised to get revenge.
20% : Trump has said that the news media are "the enemy of the people" and that NBC News "should be investigated" for treason.
20% : The riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a horrible incident, and as I have written before, Trump was terribly wrong for his part in encouraging the violence.
20% : It's a gross insult to both to the victims of fascism and to the 73 million Americans who exercised their right to elect Trump this week to so carelessly throw around such language.
19% : Then when Trump makes an admittedly stupid crack about the media's bias or getting revenge on political opponents, his words are taken as literal promises?
18% : Is Trump a fascist?
17% : "Calling Trump, and by default Trump voters, fascist doesn't just sound ignorant, it also shows progressives' seething contempt masked underneath a layer of fear and wrapped in a web of anger.
16% : They hate the idea of Trump implementing conservative policies, even if those initiatives help working-class people.
12% : If Trump really was a fascist, much of what we witnessed this week would not have happened: About 68 million people exercised the freedom to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

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