WHAT ? !?!?! Ouch . She ' s still a really pretty woman today , and she was gorgeous with her original nose , but Mindy was NOT a beautiful woman . <| sep |> You ' re focusing on the symbols and not the substance . You are really missing the point . Because I mentioned goosestepping and gas chambers ? C ' mon . My replies to this chain have been calling out the hyperbolic bullshit that ' s being used to draw nonexistent parallels between the current state of America and a Germany that existed almost a 100 years ago . . that ' s your argument ? What , do you expect Obama to declare a coup and reject the results of the election ? He would never do that . That ' s not my argument , but it ' s part of it , and should be part of any rational analysis . Your counter to this point is some magical insight that you have on what Obama would actually do if the very fabric of the U S of A was threatened by a despot . If the American Republic was going to be usurped by some tyrannical racistfascist , you think Obama wouldn ' t do anything at all ? Nothing ? Not even a peep . He ' s just going to peace out after his 8 years , because he did his time and that ' s it . Ridiculous . Almost as ridiculous as believing that America is on some precipice , only a couple short months away from descending into a dystopian nightmare . Trump is quite literally a fascist . He is a racist , hypernationalist with apparent authoritarian leanings . He is against free speech and the free press . He has no real economic policy , instead using a kind of right wing populism that relies on fear and anger of the other to rally working class white people behind him . He is a fascist , pure and simple . Trump is not literally a fascist I have no idea how you can type this without shutting off any tenuous connections you may have with reality . He isn ' t racist either . If he is a racist , you ' d think there would be ample evidence to support the claim . But there isn ' t . It ' s shaky , without context , and requires large leaps in logic or mental gymnastics . What ' s more reasonable your argument , that Trump is a fascist and racist , or mine , that Trump is an opportunist and populist ? I think if you look at the overwhelming body of evidence that exists since D Trump was born , you may lean a little more to the he ' s an opportunistic business man side of things , rather than he ' s a fascist . Or , you could ignore the man ' s life and focus on the things he ' s said in the last year in order to get elected and draw your conclusions , only to have them fall apart after he takes office . We can both agree that the man is a giant douche , and he can eat a bag of dicks . Of course Trump might in 2020 he ' s already shown a willingness to refuse to accept the results of the election and declare it rigged if it doesn ' t go his way . He said a lot of things during the campaign because the man is an opportunist . Everything he said was crafted to get him the support he needed to get into the White House . The man played the media , and he played the vast majority of ignorant Americans like a fiddle . Trump has already said he might have been in favor of Japanese internment camps during WWII . And he said he wants to put American citizens in Gitmo without trials . And he has said he wants to torture people . See above . Saying things and doing things are completely different . Stop being in denial here . Assume that there is at least a possibility that Trump will try to do the things he said he would do , and understand what that might mean for our democracy . Anything is possible . The probability is so low that it can be dismissed as excessive fear mongering . And for God ' s sake stop calling people stupid for recognizing the danger we are in . People are stupid if they think Trump is Hitlerincarnate . A year ago you were probably calling people stupid if they warned that Trump might end up being elected PresidentA year ago I was claiming he would win for the very reasons he did . The man is shady as fuck , and is willing to do anything and say anything it takes to get a deal done in his favour . He tested the waters a couple of times in the past before finally recognising last year that everything was lining up perfectly for him .