Trump's military parade: Straight out of the fascist playbook

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Trump didn't get his military parade so tiny hands hijacked July 4th instead.

For an authoritarian, a military parade fulfills several roles.

It celebrates and announces the great leader's power by intimidating his foes both international and domestic.

The authoritarian leader is the literal physical embodiment of the State. He imagines himself to be strong and powerful. By implication, the military parade is a public display of that supposed truth.

Because they are "masculine" ideologies, fascism and other types of authoritarian ideologies rely upon and emphasize phallocentric imagery. Donald Trump is obsessed with the size of his penis: He has mentioned his "great" organ many times, both during interviews as well as presidential debates. A military parade is the logical extension of Trump and other right-wing ideologues' obsessions with masculine virility and potency.

Fascist and other authoritarian regimes embrace militant nationalism as one of their guiding principles.

The military parade is also an attempt by the authoritarian leader to shift attention away from scandals (here, the Robert Mueller investigation and Trump's likely collusion with Russia) as well as other failures both at home and abroad.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/08/tru...cist-playbook/

And of course Trump still needs shiny object distractions because it's less than 2 weeks from Mueller testifying before Congress and the fact that his poll number numbers still suck while Democratic candidates are eating his lunch in the polls.

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Trump didn't get his military parade so tiny hands hijacked July 4th instead.



And of course Trump still needs shiny object distractions because it's less than 2 weeks from Mueller testifying before Congress and the fact that his poll number numbers still suck while Democratic candidates are eating his lunch in the polls.

It turns out it was not the case, that the event was a celebration of America, not Trump. Your article fearmongered and you guys fell for it.