I’m not going to recite the whole thing, because it was banal and stupid on a level you good people shouldn’t be subjected to, but on social media Thursday after I noted the interesting fact that Washington, D.C. had gone a full week without a homicide, an obvious consequence of President Trump’s decision to federalize law enforcement there, I found myself subjected to the same treatment that Trump officials seem to be getting.
Namely, this…
Protesters completely went off at Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller during their visit to Union Station in DC.
“F*ck you, Pete! F*ck you, N*zi!”
“Get the F*ck out of my city!!”pic.twitter.com/rYzCr0ncSf
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) August 20, 2025
A deranged leftist entered the thread to first admit that the federalization of Washington’s police had produced results, and then to admit that DC’s black community seems very much to enjoy the heightened security of their neighborhoods — after all, robberies have been cut in half, carjackings by 5/6ths, and violent crime overall by 22 percent along with the sudden cessation of murders, and these are positive developments inuring disproportionately to the benefit of Washington’s beleagured black citizens who have borne the brunt of the longstanding lawlessness on the streets of the nation’s capital. (RELATED: DC May Be More Receptive to a Trump Takeover Than Many Assume)
But then he said it wouldn’t last.
And insisted that this was “fascism,” and that with so many uniformed men with guns patrolling Washington, the city looks like Pakistan. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 258: Democrats Don’t Want Donald Trump to Save DC)
Then came the coup de grâce, which was a suggestion that Trump invest in more community centers in D.C.
It’s been said that the city’s police force is some 300 officers short of its full complement of law enforcement officials. So supplementing it with ICE, DEA, ATF, and FBI agents and — the horror! — National Guardsmen from several states around the country is actually something less than “fascism.” (RELATED: Crime in DC Is NOT at a 30-Year Low)
Unless an effective law enforcement contingent large enough to impose law and order is “fascism.”
An interesting bit of history for you — when the Nazis took over Germany, one of the first things they did was to defund and disband local police forces…
An interesting bit of history for you — when the Nazis took over Germany, one of the first things they did was to defund and disband local police forces and roll them into the various security agencies of the Reich.
That’s what fascism looks like from a law enforcement perspective, because a local police force can serve as a check on the power of a national government.
Or at least that’s what it looked like when it was first tried.
Something interesting happened during the 12 years Barack Obama and his non compos mentis stooge Joe Biden were in the White House: efforts were made at defunding and defanging local law enforcement through various means, whether it was direct defunding, consent decrees imposed by a predatory Justice Department, or other hooks and crooks. Into those spaces, when they weren’t filled by the street criminals whom the Democrat Party seems more and more determined to roll into their electoral coalition (something the Maduro regime in Venezuela has proven itself adept at doing, by way of reference), went federal law enforcement agencies.
And were those agencies tasked with making the streets safer? Actually, no. They were a bit more interested in political crimes. Especially after the Department of Homeland Security put out a brief in 2009 claiming that “right-wing extremism” was the nation’s largest security threat. (RELATED: Fascism Is a Progressive Tendency — Not a Trump One)
In other words, we had fascism of a sort applied in an effort to defeat fascism. Or something.
These same people are keen on hurling the F-word — well, several F-words, as it turns out — at every Republican within earshot. It’s bizarre.
And not very persuasive, I might add. But one thing can be said for the American Left — they are not into persuading anyone anymore. They’re into emoting.
And calling someone who disagrees with you a fascist apparently feels good. Especially if you don’t have the first damned clue what fascism is.
Those of us who’ve actually done some reading on the history of Italian and German fascism don’t really get such a charge out of hurling that insult, I’d surmise. And those of us oriented to the center right are offended at being called such names only to the extent that they’re an insult to the intelligence of everyone in the room.
Somehow — the fact that the Left’s march through the institutions was successful in the schools, that’s the somehow — the notion took hold that fascism is a far-right phenomenon. It’s a patent lie; fascism and the people who invented it are a product of the Left.
Nazis were national socialists. MAGA Republicans don’t like socialism.
There are two real differences between fascists and communists; neither one makes a lot of difference to the people tyrannized under such systems.
Fascists are corporatists. They’re OK with private ownership of the means of production so long as the regime in the presidential palace can dictate the private owners’ economic activities. Communists, on the other hand, like to have their fingers in all the pies, so the state gets it all.
The other difference is that fascists are national socialists, while communists are international socialists. This flows from the first difference — a fascist economic system is a little more sustainable than a communist system is, and so if communism is going to survive, the communists have to control everything, everywhere. For fascists, though, upholding a national culture rather than subsuming it to the whims of elite globalists in Moscow is a pretty good grift. Especially when you’re engaging in streetfights with the commies over which gang of socialist thugs will take over the failed society in question.
Because of the Left’s march through the institutions, World War II, and the atrocities of Hitler’s Nazis are the recognized standard for governmental evil. And as evil goes, it isn’t like we’d want to argue against them. That said, communism is far and away the deadliest and most profligate spreader of human misery ever devised, and has proven this again and again from Russia to Cambodia to North Korea to Cuba to Venezuela to East Germany to Seattle.
All of this theory and history goes to show that calling a small-government conservative, or even a MAGA Christian nationalist, a fascist is an utterly stupid, onanistic exercise by the modern Left. It’s a perfect encapsulation of why they’re watching their ranks dwindle by millions of voters vis-a-vis the Republican Party over the past five years in the 30 states where voter registration is categorized by party.
Nobody but these people believes Donald Trump is a Nazi, or that JD Vance or Pete Hegseth or Tulsi Gabbard or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are fascists. And nobody is going to be persuaded that having ATF agents tasked to supplement the understaffed and undersupported D.C. Metro Police in sweeping the criminal class off the streets of the nation’s capital is the same thing as Kristallnacht.
That we even need to have this discussion is insulting.
I ultimately ran off the leftist interlocutor by asking him what his suggestion of building and funding “community centers” was supposed to do for the D.C. crime rate. What I got back was that those would “engage the community.”
Didn’t get a lot in the way of a response when I asked exactly how that would happen. In fact, that’s when the accusations of fascism started. And they intensified when I suggested to him that private places of business like coffee shops, restaurants, bars, barber shops, bookstores, and other retail establishments also “engage the community,” and, interestingly enough, not at taxpayer expense.
The insults got worse when I noted that such places of business are the first things to vanish when criminals begin to “engage the community.” And when they disappear and the community falls apart, now you need government-funded “community centers.”
In other words, we’ve tried all of those things. They really don’t work as well as what Trump is doing.
And then there’s the first accusation, which is that what Trump is doing is only temporary and things will go back to how they were before long.
Interestingly enough, though, that isn’t in evidence. The surge onto Washington’s streets, even with Guardsmen, can be quite permanent.
In fact, what I would suggest is that red-state governors, particularly in states like Missouri, Tennessee, and Louisiana, which contain blue cities whose local law enforcement agencies are as deprived and captive as Washington, D.C.’s has been, might very well happily rotate their Guardsmen into Washington, D.C. for the purposes of training them.
It turns out that bringing order to a lawless urban area is an institutional capability that can be developed, and once that happens, such a capability can be brought to bear closer to home.
So if the Missouri Guard were to employ veteran operators in order to clean up the streets of St. Louis, that would be something much to the benefit of the people there. Not so much so, though, for the politicos and activists who increasingly scream “fascist” at everyone they disagree with.
At the end of the day, then, we can define “fascist,” as used by these people, as a term which means “I don’t like you and I’m afraid of you.”
Which is fine. After what they’ve done to our cities and our national discourse, their terror is probably a desirable thing.
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