CM,
To answer your question, because both sides (R and D) have roughly the same numbers and a 50/50 split within the population. I think personality types and the influence of society and culture tend to distribute pretty evenly across this spectrum in terms of numbers when scaled outward. I would actually hypothesize there are more people far left than far right but not by much.
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Aha, so your evidence is largely anecdotal opinion as well. But really, do we need to quibble about society as a binomial distribution and which side has more extremists?
Trump is a fascist. However, fascism is not the most extreme right wing position. Anarchy, the total absence of government, therefore the "smallest" government that conservatives claim to want, is the most extreme right wing position.
Meanwhile, Trump supports the contention that he is a fascist. Just yesterday in his speech he complainingly asked "what is wrong with the public?" Apparently some of his inside advisors had enough guts to inform him that his popularity is not at 90% after all. Trump says he has the "right" policy. He wondered aloud why he/they even have to run against Democrats (who have all the "wrong" policies, in elections. He would like to cancel elections, but then people would call him a dictator, he said.
Trump's actions have concentrated most of the government's power in himself and the executive branch, pushing the Congress and courts to the wayside. Hard to be more of a dictator than this. Trump is concentrating power among himself and billionaire corporate elites. He's exacting tribute (a % of gross trade) from certain companies for the privilege he's allowing them to do business. He's trying to stifle news media that criticizes him and has exacted tribute from ABC, NBC, and CBS broadcasters (another story in itself.). He's stifling academic freedom because it doesn't align with his worldview. It's hard to be more fascist than these examples indicate.
In addition to being a fascist, Trump is batsh!t crazy, as exemplified by his kidnapping of Venezuelan president Mauduro. First it was about the fentanyl, but Venezuela doesn't traffic fentanyl, Mexican cartels do. So Trump commits war crimes by bombing boats coming from Venezuela that may, or may not, have been trafficking drugs, but we'll never know since no evidence was provided or collected. Then Trump kidnaps the (illegitimate) president of a sovereign country because he wants the oil that he alleges Venezuela "stole" from the U.S. This is insane on so many levels, where to begin.
Venezuela has oil. Therefore it belongs to Venezuela, and the country or its businesses can sell oil on the global market. Some U.S. oil companies invested in developing the oil industry in Venezuela. Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976. That was the country's prerogative. When a company does business in another nation, it does so under the best deal it can arrange in that country. There are no guarantees. And the U.S. government has no duty nor obligation to intervene in the business and affairs of other sovereign nations. Oil companies took a business risk, and they lost, end of story. Unless you're an oil industry hedge fund billionaire who bought the failing Citgo - Venezuela's main oil company - for pennies on the dollar, and donated millions to Trump's campaign and otherwise sucked him off enough to get him to stage a military invasion and kidnapping to further the billionaire's business interests.
Now Trump the imbecile says he runs Venezuela. Venezuela's interim president says he doesn't and is acting kinda' like Mauduro by detaining journalists who wrote or broadcasted positively about the American invasion. What is Trump's plan? By all indications he doesn't have one beyond staging the kidnapping.
Trump wants Greenland. For national security, allegedly. Greenland in a territory of Denmark (for 300 years or so). Denmark is a member of NATO. So the U.S. already has a defense pact with Greenland through NATO. If the U.S. takes Greenland by force, Trump breaks with NATO, and under Article 5 the U.S. would become the wartime enemy of all NATO countries. By taking Greenland, Trump would basically be declaring war against most of Europe. Most of Europe would then be at war with the U.S. How smart is your genius Trump?
Yeah, Trump is a fascist. He doesn't understand the Constitution and ignores it. He has no respect for the law. He acts like the law is whatever he wants it to be, based on his current whim, subject to arbitrary change, of course. Trump breaks or defys U.S. law and tradition daily, and breaks international norms in between. This is what you voted for. Because Biden/Harris bad. Hah!
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