[dbingham]

This was true a decade ago. It is no longer true.

The modern Trump controlled Republican party is not a party that cares about personal liberties. It is a fascist, authoritarian project that is toying with straight up Nazism. They are explicitly pulling from the Nazi playbook in their language and strategy of attack on the rule of law. Someone who supports that party is supporting a completely different set of values from someone who opposes it.

That said, that party is also backed by a powerful and effective propaganda machine that has successfully pulled the wool over many people's eyes such that they don't fully realize what it is they are supporting.

[cylinder714]

The left has called every Republican presidential candidate a Nazi/fascist/authoritarian since Ronald Reagan.

[toofy]

this is far too broad of a generalization. just like it would be too broad of a generalization to declare all conservatives to be maga.

if we’re to believe trump he declares people to be “extreme leftists” who are clearly not even leftists.

so i find it highly unlikely that the entirety of “the left” called every republican presidential candidate these things.

[goatlover]

Doesn't matter what the left said previously, what matters is that the Trump Administration is behaving in an autocratic manner. Godwin's law has been abused online since forever, but you can just draw a comparison with Putin's ascent to autocratic rule in Russia.