# Why the extreme hyperbole over Trump?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-extreme-hyperbole-over-trump/788476 "2017-06-09T02:55:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-extreme-hyperbole-over-trump/788476/1 "2017-06-09T02:55:50Z")

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Trump has not suspended the Constitution. He has not declared martial law. He has not proclaimed himself president _in perpetuum_. He is not rounding people up into barb wire detention camps. He is not having critics assassinated. He is not having protesters machine gunned on the streets. He has not shut down newspapers, magazines and television stations. He has not ordered military trials for “traitors”. He has not abolished the existing security organs and created a new security apparatus. In short, if Donald Trump is a “fascist”, he is the most laughable bubblegum fascist in history. Yet to hear the left tell it, we’re in Germany circa 1933. IMHO, this only makes the left look exactly like the snowflakes their worst critics accuse them of being.

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