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MacDonald: Fashionable Fascism

It walks like fascism and talks like fascism.

(Auschwitz-Photo-by-Karsten-Winegeart-on-Unsplash)

For a political body that’s supposed to be downstream from a culture that lives in fear of fascism, the German government does some incredibly fascist things. They’ve banned political parties, all while suggesting that if German women don’t want to get raped, they should stay home at night.

Then there are the Christmas Markets. Islamists kept driving into the crowds, killing people, so, hey, maybe just don’t have them. If no one is there to get run over…

Then there’s this.

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