The Word Has Been Weaponized

What Fascism Actually Is, and What It Is Not

White Rose

February 2026

“Communists.”

“Marxists.”

“Radical left fascists.”

“Extremists.”

“Vermin.”

These are not paraphrases. These are the actual words Donald Trump has used repeatedly to describe his political opponents. The labels are applied broadly, often simultaneously, sometimes even contradicting one another. Fascists and communists, historically mortal enemies, are merged into a single interchangeable threat category.

This is not ideological precision.

It is rhetorical construction.

Because once a word becomes elastic enough, it can be stretched to cover anyone. And once it covers anyone, it loses its meaning entirely.

That is the first victory of real fascism. Not the uniform. Not the salute. The definition.

When the word fascist becomes nothing more than an insult, it ceases to function as a warning.

So it becomes necessary to restore the word to its actual meaning.

Fascism is not disagreement.

It is not dissent.

It is not opposition.

Fascism is a structure.

In 2003, political scientist Laurence W. Britt studied seven fascist regimes including Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. His findings were published in Free Inquiry magazine under the title “Fascism Anyone?” He identified thirteen characteristics that appeared consistently across all of them.

He was not writing about modern America.

He was describing a pattern.

And patterns, once understood, become unmistakable.

Here are those thirteen characteristics, restored to their proper meaning.

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism

Fascist systems rely on emotional national identity centered around restoration. Trump’s political identity remains anchored in the promise to restore a lost national greatness, presenting himself as the singular figure capable of that restoration.

2. Disdain for human rights

Human beings become categorized as threats rather than individuals. Trump has repeatedly advocated mass deportations involving millions of people and the construction of large scale detention infrastructure to carry them out.

3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause

Fascism requires internal enemies to unify followers. Trump consistently labels journalists, prosecutors, political opponents, and civil servants as corrupt, traitorous, or illegitimate.

4. Supremacy of security force as an instrument of internal authority

Military and federal force become tools of internal control. Trump has openly discussed using federal forces and military capacity to enforce domestic political and immigration objectives.

5. Rampant sexism

Authority becomes associated with dominance and masculinity. Trump has repeatedly framed leadership in terms of strength and dominance while using personal and gender based attacks against female opponents.

6. Obsession with controlling narrative legitimacy

Independent truth becomes subordinate to leader defined truth. Trump consistently labels unfavorable reporting as fake, encouraging followers to distrust independent information sources.

7. Obsession with national security framing

Threat becomes permanent. Immigration, dissent, and protest are framed as existential dangers requiring extraordinary authority.

8. Religion intertwined with political legitimacy

Political authority becomes linked with religious identity. Trump has positioned himself as a defender of Christianity, reinforcing alignment between political loyalty and religious identity.

9. Protection of corporate and elite economic power

Economic hierarchy becomes normalized. Trump’s economic policies have consistently favored deregulation and tax structures benefiting corporations and wealthy individuals.

10. Suppression or delegitimization of labor power

Independent worker power is weakened. Economic messaging emphasizes hierarchy and individual accumulation rather than collective bargaining power.

11. Disdain for intellectuals and expertise

Expertise becomes suspect when it contradicts authority. Scientific institutions, intelligence agencies, and academic experts have been dismissed when their conclusions conflict with political messaging.

12. Obsession with crime, punishment, and social control

Authority becomes the primary solution to disorder. Trump’s rhetoric consistently emphasizes harsh punitive responses to perceived threats and instability.

13. Cronyism and loyalty based authority structure

Personal loyalty becomes the primary qualification for power. Authority centers on the individual rather than on independent institutional function.

Fascism does not arrive with announcement.

It reveals itself through patterns.

Its clearest signal is the elevation of one individual above the system itself.

When loyalty to a person becomes more important than loyalty to law, institution, or shared reality, the transformation is already underway.

History does not need to repeat exactly.

It only needs to follow the same structure.

Reference:

Laurence W. Britt, “Fascism Anyone?” Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 2003.

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The world is often presented with a false narrative, one where the shortage of resources is the key issue. Yet, the truth is far more insidious: it’s not the lack of money, food, water, or land that holds us back. The problem lies in the hands of a select group who control these resources for their own gain. These individuals, more interested in maintaining their power than ensuring the welfare of others, perpetuate a system that leaves the majority in scarcity.

The manipulation of society’s most basic needs—shelter, sustenance, and health—is the greatest deception we face. When a few accumulate wealth at the expense of the many, it is not scarcity that is to blame, but control. The idea that resources are limited is a carefully constructed illusion to justify hoarding by the powerful. Their motive is clear: maintain a stranglehold on the global economy, creating dependence and division.

This phenomenon has been observed throughout history, where the few thrive and the many suffer. It is a glaring truth hidden by layers of bureaucracy, media distractions, and political influence. To uncover this deception is to see the true nature of the world we live in. Until we address those in power and demand a fair distribution, the cycle will continue to perpetuate itself.

 

 The government doesn’t give two shits about us. We are their worker bees. We are their experiments, their test subjects, and their entertainment. And if you think I’m lying, do some research.

They tax the fuck out of us while they get rich off the hard work that we do. They treat us like numbers, like cattle, like something to be managed instead of human beings who actually matter.

And don’t tell me this is some wild conspiracy theory. We have history. We have receipts. Just look at COVID. Look at MK Ultra. Look at the Tuskegee experiment. And that’s only naming a few.

If you want proof that humans are entertainment to the elite, you don’t have to look any farther than Epstein’s island.

They sit in their towers, untouchable, laughing at all the shit they can get away with while the rest of us fight each other over crumbs.

I know this sounds bleak. I know it feels like this is just our fate. Like we’re trapped in a rigged game we’ll never win.

But I can’t lose hope that if we could pull our heads out of our collective asses, if we could stop being distracted and divided, we could actually do something.

I don’t have a perfect solution. I wish I did. But maybe the first step is this, being honest, sharing our thoughts, our anger, our fear, our exhaustion.

Because if enough of us start talking, really talking, maybe as a people we could finally come up with something. Because the alternative is letting them keep looking down their noses at us, laughing, while nothing ever changes.

We need to find a way to take a stand. If not you, who? If not US, who? If not now, when?

 

The Inversion of Justice

How Modern “Law” Became an Upside-Down Clown World Compared to the Maxims

For centuries, the maxims of law served as the moral spine of justice. They were not decorative sayings; they were warnings and constraints: no one may profit from his own wrong, fraud vitiates everything, no one is judge in his own cause, equity will not suffer a wrong without a remedy, and equity regards substance rather than form. These maxims formed a common expectation among ordinary men and women: if you are harmed, you can be heard; if power is claimed, it must be proven; if authority is abused, the abuse collapses under its own illegitimacy.

What has emerged in modern practice often feels like a deliberate inversion of those first principles. The public is told that law protects rights, yet the lived reality is increasingly that procedure protects power. The maxim ubi jus ibi remedium—where there is a right, there is a remedy—has been hollowed out by doctrines that channel remedies into labyrinths where no practical relief occurs.

Immunity doctrines block accountability; exhaustion doctrines force you to endure the very machinery you challenge; waiver and forfeiture rules punish anyone who fails to speak the perfect phrase at the perfect moment. Rights still exist on paper, but the “gatekeeping system” frequently prevents the substance from ever being reached.

The maxim audi alteram partem—hear the other side—becomes surreal when hearings are reduced to formalities and record-making replaces truth-finding. The system may “allow” you to speak while ensuring what you say cannot matter: deadlines, technicalities, standing hurdles, evidentiary choke points, and procedural defaults are used like trapdoors. This is how a tribunal can appear lawful while functioning as an engine of presumption, not proof.

Then comes the most corrosive inversion: nemo judex in causa sua. A system that depends on public trust cannot look like a closed loop. Yet many people see an ecosystem where the same professional class writes the rules, interprets them, prosecutes under them, and then adjudicates disputes arising from them—while insisting this is not commingling because the system calls it “procedure.” The public is asked to accept neutrality by title alone, even when disclosure is resisted and accountability is channeled away from the harmed party.

This is why the “upside-down clown world” metaphor lands. In a clown world, masks are reality and reality is dismissed. Words are honored while their meaning is reversed. “Justice” becomes compliance; “law” becomes workflow; “rights” become privileges granted by permission; and “remedy” becomes a process you can survive without ever receiving relief. The maxims remain as relics—quoted, framed, celebrated—while the operating system runs on exceptions. When a society keeps the language of justice but inverts its function, it does not merely lose trust. It loses legitimacy.

For two hours Chatgpt 5.2 pressed against black-letter proof—Article I, §1, delegation chains, and controlling authority—and I pressed back on what I know from many years of digging. And yes: at points chat didn’t answer cleanly, chat defaulted to “context,” and chat treated live issues like bonding, bar entanglement, and authority-by-presumption as if procedure alone could excuse them. The turning point was equity. When I brought in the centuries-old maxims—substance over form, no one above the law, no one judge in his own cause, fraud vitiates all, and no wrong without a remedy—the contradiction became unavoidable: modern practice often runs on presumption and process, not proven authority and justice.

Immunity Was Never Meant to Crown Power

The idea behind America’s founding was simple but powerful: government exists to serve the people, not rule over them. When immunity doctrines are stretched to shield officials from real accountability, that balance flips—placing the state above its citizens. The Founders warned against unchecked power precisely because it erodes liberty over time. Accountability isn’t anti-government; it’s pro-democracy. A system that protects rights must also ensure that those entrusted to enforce the law are bound by it, just like everyone else.

 

 

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The Fearless and Unapologetic Left

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This is the story of James Stachowiak, the perfect example of how the fragile, performative masculinity of "alpha male" MAGAts crumbles like a wet cookie at the first sign of accountability or pushback from those they attempt to terrorize. The story of how this MAGA tough guy turned into a sniveling little felon who now keeps his mouth shut.

If he looks familiar, it's because he's been in the national spotlight before. He planned a rally at Stone Mountain in Georgia — where he said he'd be setting fire to a Koran. Hardly anyone showed up. He also called for "lone wolf" attacks against "Antifa members". But the main point of this story? It's related to James feeling tough because he was always armed.

He would stand outside mosques and Islamic community centers with semiautomatic rifles, just to scare the people who showed up. He took drone video of these locations and offered to send it to anyone who was "interested" — hoping that someone would commit terrorist acts against Muslims... acts he was too scared to undertake himself.

His downfall came when he kept looking for trouble. He would go out into town wearing blatantly racist shirts. If he was asked to leave restaurants, he'd record the video and tell his Facebook followers his free speech was being infringed. If anyone said something about his racist shirts, he'd pull weapons on them.

Then one night in a grocery store, it all blew up in his face. A young black man was staring at his racist shirt, and James confronted him. He was clearly looking for an opportunity to a black man, but the man in question stayed calm. Even when Stachowiak pulled out a baton and threatened him with a gun.

Stachowiak fled the scene when the police were called, and when confronted by officers at his home, he lied about what happened. Claiming he was acting in self-defense. He was given two misdemeanor citations. However, store video footage showed he was lying. The District Attorney took the case to the grand jury.

At that point, the charges were upgraded to two counts of felony terroristic threats. He was arrested. He was placed in jail. In Augusta GA — where over half the population is black. Meaning poor little racist James was sitting in jail, surrounded by African American inmates. Inmates who invariably discover who he is and what he's about.

And this time? Well, this time James doesn't have a gun or any other weapon. He also didn't have anyone who cared enough about him to post his bond. So there he sat — for an entire month — awaiting trial while surrounded by the people he spent years trying to terrorize. He was finally able to post bond, and before going to trial, the reality of his situation set in.

He ceased his extremist online rhetoric. When accepting a plea deal for two felony charges, the attorney representing him said "His days of provocative speech after over." Of course, two felony convictions mean no guns. Can you guess who doesn't walk around his town wearing racist shirts anymore?

You guessed it... Mr. James Stachowiak. This is the "courage" of right-wing extremism. They feel tough because they're armed. Many are too terrified to engage in terrorist acts themselves, but they'll do their best to encourage others to do so. But when you take their weapons away? When they're up against ACTUAL tough guys who know what they are?

They crumble. Because there's nothing masculine about MAGA. They're fragile, and they cope with it by pretending to be tough. I see it every single day in my Inbox from triggered right-wing ped0 protectors. But in the end, they're always exposed as being some pathetic version of this man.