The problem with calling Trump a fascist is that it relatvises actual fascism. It's the "cry wolf" problem.
What is "actual fascism"? Just the original party, in Italy and no one else? Or do you have some actual, testable definition in mind?
If not, then his policies aren't racist. He can be a racist while his policies aren't racist. To the rape accusation. He hasn't been convicted of rape. So calling him a rapist relativises rape.
You're trying to pretend that sexual assault is somehow in a completely separate moral category to rape, and you're accusing
Don of obfuscatory relativism? Rich, bro, rich. You will not find a single non-Democrat who feels that rape is wrong but sexual assualt is acceptable, or even that the two are meaningfully different in the ethical sense. You're splitting semantic hairs, because apparently makes Trump sound better if he used his fingers rather than his penis to penetrate a woman's vagina without her consent. Which, in most states OTHER than New York, would just be rape anyway. But no good moral, thinking person would say "it is morally acceptable to penetrate a woman's vagina without her consent as long as you only use your fingers or other implements". I mean, is this really the hill you want to die on? That using legally imprecise wording is the real crime here, not the fact that our president raped someone and used a legal technicality to ward off the most serious consequences thereof? If someone were sticking some up your anus without your permission, would you give a flying fuck whether it was a penis (rape) or a rusty rail tie (sexual assault)? With the conclusion that the rail tie is better since it isn't
technically rape, as long as they did it in New York instead of New Jersey?
THAT is your fucking argument against the
dangers of obfuscatory relativizing of rape? That sticking your fingers in someone else's genitals without their permission only counts as a moral wrong if it happens on the east end of the Lincoln tunnel where it is classified as rape instead of the west end where it is legally classified as sexual assault? That you can make yourself a better person by driving a mile and a half before raping a friend? This is becoming an absurd and disgusting parody the longer it rolls on.
It's the same thing with calling his policies racist. It relativises actual racism. Has he put in place any laws that limits people based on race?
That you think it is the president's job to "put in place laws" at all is a telling sign of how far fascist ideology has seeped into US political discourse and uprooted Constitutional precedent. But I also have the same question. What is racism, if not policies and actions aimed at disproportionate racial discrimination, and the endorsement of the systems of pseudoscience and false history-making that justify it?
The problem with all of this is that it will make us blind to being taken over by actual racist rapist fascist.
What
other "actual" racist rapist fascist is in contention for the White House? If there are any, they're surely in Trump's faction, and preventing their rise surely requires taking him down anyway.
You don't need to like Trump to insist that we call him what he actually is, a lying orange clown
You shouldn't need to dislike Trump to know that raping a woman with your fingers is wrong, or that arresting someone without cause, charge, or right to self defense on the basis of their skin color is wrong, or that "joking" about ending Constitutional rule, refusing to back down when asked, then putting the guy who wrote a manual for your personal takeover of the houses of government in charge mass layoffs and reforms during a budget lacuna, is
wrong.