[const_cast]

When people say that Trump is a Nazi, they mean in the fascist "enemy from within" type of way. As in they're using Nazi as a drop-in for fascist because Nazi Germany was the most popular fascist nation that everyone knows.

They probably shouldn't do that and should just say fascist.

[lazyeye]

Yes I guess nazis were the "most popular fascist nation". Interestingly there were alot of themes in nazi ideology that could almost be considered left-wing. They believed in the dignity of the German working class man for example and that the Jewish people represented big business and were a corruption on society etc.

[shadowgovt]

Indeed. Their socialist program was left-wing... But it was socialism only for the people they considered actually people. That'd be the key difference between Nazi beliefs and any modern democratic socialism.

[lazyeye]

So both different forms of socialism then....

[shadowgovt]

In the sense that salmon and rat poison are both different sources of vitamin D3, sure.

[lazyeye]

Thats a good analogy...they both certainly are poison.

[shadowgovt]

What, salmon and rat poison?

[corimaith]

New-Left/Progressives are influenced by Carl Schmitt and his views on power that the Right also draws from. It's one of the key distinctions from Liberals who reject him entirely.

[const_cast]

Okay, whatever.

[lazyeye]

Yep exactly, whatever....