I’m not American and can’t vote so no I didn’t read the party manifesto. That link is from a conservative think tank though? It’s not the republican mandate unless I’m missing something? Not saying trump won’t try and make political changes and put his friends in power but to a degree every political party does this. If the US citizens don’t like it then they vote dem next election and those policies can be reversed. That’s democracy.
Now I pointed out a number of things the Nazis are associated with. You chose to ignore all those key points and point to an obscure political agenda which is yet to be made law. Or even attempted to be made law. It’s sort of pointless to debate what trump might do… he has already been in power, so why don’t you look at what he did do and highlight what policies of his are a copy of the nazi party?
I think I’ve been fair and raised points for you to counter. As I’ve said I’m no advocate of trump - I really dislike the guy - but this is the problem with social media no one listens to the other side they simply try and find a new angle to make their point as if winning the argument is all that matters. It’s actually pointless.
American here, voted for Harris.
So there are a few things going on here. You are correct that Project 2025 is indeed from a right-wing think tank and not directly from the GOP...but the issue is that lots of people involved in it are in Trump's orbit and that a very prominent, influential think tank has published a blueprint to give Trump as close to unchecked power as a President can have is alarming.
Trump has publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 but I don't believe for a second he wouldn't try to enact some of the more odious things in it.
As far as the Nazi stuff...so this is kind of a multilayered issue that goes beyond mere name-calling. Labels like "fascist" and "Nazi" have been overused by the left in the US since way before Trumpism was a thing, I heard it a lot about George W Bush, and while he was by no means a good President, there was virtually nothing he did that had any parallels to fascism.
Obviously, you're right in saying there hasn't been mass genocide, apartheid, "secret police" etc under Trump like there was under the actual Nazis. The real issue is that Trump has true right-wing authoritarian tendencies that have parallels to fascist RHETORICAL styles even if they don't translate to those sorts of policies. It says something really bad about the direction our country is headed.
Part of the problem, though, is that the left has overused the "Nazi" and "fascist" labels for many years (arguably many decades) AND the right wing in this country is largely made up of voters who are too dense to understand that when the left says "fascist" they don't mean literal gas chambers or brownshirts marching in the streets. They're talking about hard-right democratic backsliding, which absolutely has happened under Trump, but they're using terms that aren't particularly helpful, especially as right-wing voters are all too happy to dismiss Trump's shortcomings because "well, the left says he's a Nazi/fascist, and he's clearly not, so we can't take their concerns seriously."
There's also the issue of certain people in Trump's orbit - such as the governor of Florida, DeSantis - weaponizing police and the legislative branch to attack people and entities that have criticized them. While it isn't the same as sending the Gestapo after someone, it's deeply concerning that we're seeing these insidious ways in which right-wing extremists are trying to flex their muscles against out-groups in the name of "anti-woke" or "law and order."