O’Malley: The GOP was ‘hijacked by the fascist campaign of Donald Trump’

Former Maryland governor and presidential candidate Martin O’Malley was on my radio show Thursday night discussing the Russian hacking of our election, which he called in July. He also explained his view that Trump ran a fascist campaign.

GOV. O’MALLEY: I do not believe that the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan is totally dead. It has been hijacked by the fascist campaign of Donald Trump. But it is still within our power to stop that fascist campaign, whether it’s electoral votes success from actually creating a repressive regime, or one that undermines the security of the United States. So I think there is still time, and I think our institutions can rise to this, and I’m counting on the Republican party rising to this occasion.

COLMES: Why do you call it a fascist campaign?

GOV. O’MALLEY: I think by any classic definition, let’s walk through a few of the common denominators of fascism. Number one, the fascist appeals, the first goal is to make the majority feel that their greatness is being stolen or robbed, or taken from them by a religious or ethnic minority. Secondly, the appeal toward an ethnic, or in our case a white, militarist nationalism, which is also the hallmark of this Trump campaign. You look at the numbers now in his administration of white generals who are being put into positions in the past we have put kind of a healthy separation and thought they were best headed by civilians and people not directly in military service.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.