vote Donald trump!?

[Aegon]

Alright, here's the thing about The Donald. Even if you agree with every word that comes out of his mouth, you still shouldn't be voting for him and you know it. I think people are forgetting that this is a presidential election to elect the President of the United fucking States. Respect the position. You think modern liberals are little social justice crybabies, fine. You think we're not tough enough on ISIS, fine. You hate "politically correct" politics, fine. But don't elect some guy to be the President of the most powerful nation in the world because he says what he wants. That's not a quality I want in a president. I want my president to be a fierce and determined leader, sure, but I want my president to know what to say and when to say it. A president who knows that sometimes shutting up is the way to go. Don't elect some guy to be President of the most powerful nation because he doesn't have speech writers. His speeches have the vocabulary of a 7th grader. It's abysmal.

A president that the nations we deal with will respect. It pains me to even think of the possibility that Donald Trump will sit in the same seat as Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and yeah, Barack Obama. Look, will Hillary Clinton fight the big banks like she claims she will? No. Will Hillary Clinton do anything about campaign finance regulation? No. But, if nothing else, Hillary Clinton is a qualified and respected leader. And if any sort of international crisis occurs, you bet your ass I'd rather President Clinton handle it than President Trump. Even though I voted for Sanders in my primary, I still prefer Clinton as a leader.

As far as calling Trump "fascist", I don't think it's as hyperbolic as his supporters say it is. From Robert Paxton's "Five Stages of Fascism":

Fascists despise thought and reason, abandon intellectual positions casually, and cast aside many intellectual fellow travellers. They subordinate thought and reason not to faith, as did the traditional Right, but to the promptings of blood and the historic destiny of the group. Their only moral yardstick is the prowess of the race, of the nation, of the community. They claim legitimacy by no universal standard except a Darwinian triumph of the strongest community. Drawing their slogans and their symbols from the patriotic repertory of one particular community, fascisms [i.e. fascist doctrines] are radically unique [from each other] in their speech and insignia. They fit badly into any system of universal intellectual principles. It is in their functions that they resemeble each other.

It sounds an awful like Trump's campaign to me. Do I think that he'd become Hitler 2.0 and start gassing Muslims? Of course not, but he is running on a fascist platform and garnering an insane amount of support for it, and that is what bothers me the most.