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Every time I hear a liberal call Donald Trump a fascist, I often want to ask them what the definition of a fascist is.

I would really go for anything in the ballpark of Merriam-Webster’s definition, “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”

Yes, that’s a bit much, but I wouldn’t even be asking them to hit the green on that definition. The fairway would suffice. Or just don’t get it into the bunker.

As it turns out, I’m probably asking the wrong question. I’m assuming these individuals had a reason why Donald Trump was a fascist and were integrating it into their definition of fascism.

Thanks to the inimitable Steven Crowder, I now know I was assuming way, way too much.

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The CRTV host did one of his legendary “Change My Mind” segments regarding the president and accusations that he’s a fascist, and he did it right across from the White House.

The results were, um, well … let’s take a look:

That’s not even near the bunker, or the parking lot.

So, let’s look at the three major accusations here:

#1) Racism

#2) Suppression of the media

#3) Um, you know, stuff.

So, as for number one, our participants say that he’s a bigot, with one of them saying that he’s even said the n-word (there’s no evidence for this, mind you). The basic gist seems to be that he feels like a racist to them, which isn’t the same thing as being a racist, but that doesn’t necessarily seem to matter here.

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The second thing seems to be that he’s suppressing the media. Which is funny, considering the media can’t stop covering him or calling him a racist. (See point number one.) When Crowder points out that he goes after the “fake news media” as opposed to the media in general, the response is to not distinguish between the two.

All we have to say is that if he wants to engage in “forcible suppression of opposition,” he really ought to do a better job of it.

So then there’s point number three, which is, um, you know, Trump is like, I heard, stuff and yeah.

This, I admit, may be totally true — once we figure out what it actually is.

There you have it — why Donald Trump is a fascist. Severe social and economic regimentation? Hardly. Centralized autocratic government? That’s what he’s fighting against. Forcible suppression of opposition? These individuals were all speaking out on camera.

But then again, it’s not that they don’t even know what a fascist is. It’s that they don’t even know why Donald Trump is one.

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Facebook has never been particularly conservative-friendly. However, as the late evening of Nov. 8, 2016 turned into the early morning of Nov. 9 and it became clear Newsweek wouldn’t be using that “Madame President” cover after all, things took a definite turn for the worse.

How bad has it gotten? Well, two heads of conservative publishers — including our own Floyd Brown — say they’ve lost 1.5 billion Facebook pageviews since Trump won.

And no, I didn’t accidentally hit the “b” instead of the “m.”

Those numbers come from The Gateway Pundit, who recently spoke to Brown and another top publisher in the right-wing opinion sphere.

“Floyd Brown is a conservative author, speaker and media commentator. In 2008 Floyd launched Western Journal which quickly became one of the top conservative websites in America,” they write.

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“By 2016 Floyd’s organization of Western Journal and other conservative websites under his umbrella had more than a billion page views. Since 2016 Floyd’s organization lost 75% of its Facebook traffic.”

“Likewise, we spoke with Jared Vallorani from Klicked Media. Jared traveled to Washington DC with The Gateway Pundit and website owners at 100%FedUp in June to discuss Facebook targeting against conservative publishers with Republican lawmakers,” they report.

“Jared told The Gateway Pundit his organization Klicked Media, which hosts over 60 conservative websites, lost 400 million page views from Facebook in the last six months if you compare the traffic to a year ago.

“Jared said, ‘We lost 70% to 80% of our traffic if you compare January to May 2017 vs Jan to May 2018.’

“If you combine the total number of pageviews lost by just these two conservative online publishers you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion pageviews from Facebook in one year.”

And keep in mind, that’s just two publishers. That means pageviews are down way more than 1.5 billion on the conservative side of the coin.

The Gateway Pundit called this a “bloodbath.”

All we’ll say is that we tracked the situation using our own data and found that liberal outlets hadn’t faced the same sort of drops. That means that there was almost certainly a political element to this.

That might have been on the mind of President Trump when he said, a few weeks ago, that “too many voices are being destroyed” by social media and compared it to “Fake News.”

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Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others…….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018

…..Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don’t watch at all..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018

….Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018

“Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!” Trump said.

That’s apparently not going to happen anytime soon.

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On Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee and begin his confirmation hearings. That’s when the left has promised the personal attacks and bloodshed are going to begin in earnest — and it’s already been ugly.

The Democrats have promised to block Kavanaugh’s hearing in any way possible despite the fact that he’s one of the most eminently qualified justices to be nominated for the position, having authored over 300 opinions on what’s widely considered the nation’s second-highest court. No one can assail Kavanaugh’s record on the bench.

So instead, they’re going after him as a human being. Despite the fact that they haven’t even met with Kavanaugh and his hearings haven’t begun, they’ve promised they’re going to go after him “with everything (they’ve) got” because he’s “complicit” in “evil” — all because he was nominated by President Donald Trump.

The Democrats are attacking him this way because Brett Kavanaugh is their worst nightmare, and not just from a judicial standpoint. Here are three reasons why:

#1: Kavanaugh is respected in his personal interactions

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As a human being, almost nobody that the Trump administration could have nominated for the Supreme Court would have been as respected as Kavanaugh, and I don’t just mean for his judicial opinions. What I mean is, as a human being, this is someone who’s not just respected but beloved by those who deal with him on a day-by-day basis.

Take Julie O’Brien, whose daughter goes to school with Kavanaugh’s. In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, not exactly a publication that’s been leading the charge for the judge’s nomination, O’Brien described how Kavanaugh spends his time coaching school sports or as a “carpool dad,” bringing kids to and fro when it comes to extracurriculars.

It was one incident, however, that really left O’Brien touched.

“Brett’s friendship and mentorship have touched my family in an especially personal way. A few years ago, my husband died,” she wrote. “One of the many difficult aspects of that loss was that my daughter had no one to accompany her to the school’s annual father-daughter dance. That first year — and every year since my husband’s passing — Brett has stepped forward to take my daughter to the dance alongside his own.

“I’ll leave it to others to gauge Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications for the Supreme Court as a jurist. But as someone who would bring to his work the traits of personal kindness, leadership and willingness to help when called on, he would receive a unanimous verdict in his favor from those who know him.”

“There was at least one term where I believe all four of his law clerks were women. He has support from all corners and all walks of life,” said Jennifer Mascott, former Kavanaugh clerk and assistant professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

“There just could not be a more terrific, qualified nominee.”

And it wasn’t like he was coming from a part of the judicial system where female inclusion was the rule, either.

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That 2014 term in which all four of his clerks were women “was the first year that any judge on the D.C. Circuit had hired four female law clerks,” clerk Katie Wellington told The New York Times.

“It was important to him,” she said. “His mother was a judge.”

#3 His clerks have been called “diverse” by even The New York Times

Just after his nomination, CNN published a piece in which it noted that Kavanaugh is a white male chosen for a court where almost everyone has been a white male. The point had to have been conspicuous to everyone — again, Kavanaugh just wasn’t right for the times.

Yet here was The New York Times‘ take on Kavanaugh’s staff: “Judge Kavanaugh’s Former Clerks: Diverse, and Deployed to Vouch for Him.”

That last part, of course, is a pithy remark about clerks coming out in the media to vouch for Kavanaugh — something that’s happened for almost every nominee in recent memory. However, this is The New York Times. If any paper was going to find a lack of diversity among Kavanaugh’s staff, it would be The Times — the same way that if anyone was going to find out how elitist Brett Kavanaugh was, it was going to be The Washington Post. Neither found anything. Brett Kavanaugh has been great for diversity on a court that simply hasn’t been known for it. Even The New York Times is forced to admit that. Shouldn’t that tell you something?

This is why Kavanaugh is the Democrats’ nightmare. All they have are personal attacks: He’s going to be bad for division in America, he’s going to be bad for women and he’s going to be bad for minorities.

On all three counts, they’re wrong — and that’s not just a matter of opinion. The facts simply mean none of this holds water.

It’s time to stop the demagoguery and gridlock, and give Brett Kavanaugh a fair hearing.

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