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US Federal Communications Commission's Brendan Carr warns broadcasters on Iran reporting
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- Title
- FCC's Carr warns broadcasters while reposting Trump comments on Iran reports
- Authors
- Dan Catchpole
- Published
- Mar 14 2026
- Word count
- 314 words
He is one of the most poisonous figures in the administration. What he's done to the FCC is so worrying.
Public interest being a euphemism for reporting civilian deaths as enemy combatants, veterans as heros and not victims, and serving as military porn to fuel public support for foreverwar.
Well known play to underminere the free press.
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The fascists aren’t hiding the fascism at all but we still get arguments from people who say it’s not fascism.
Fascism is a very specific and debated term, and we could still be headed for an authoritarian nightmare without it necessarily being fascism. It's an important distinction because if we look for the signs of fascism and don't find them, it doesn't mean we aren't headed for disaster politically. For instance, I don't expect that America will ever fully abandon cultural liberalism. That doesn't mean we won't, say, have the de facto elimination of free speech, a powerful surveillance state, and a military and intelligence apparatus that operates completely outside of democratic control.
I will appeal to authority with this recent article from The Atlantic which lays out how yes this actually is fascism. And this was written before the attack on Iran and the conviction of protestors as "Antifa terrorists"
Yes It's Fascism - The Atlantic Jan 25 2026
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The article then gives details on these many facets of fascism which are happening in Trump's second term:
I think there's a good argument to say that Trump is a fascist, but I think it introduces a debate that draws attention from the point. He's an authoritarian who's driving the country off a cliff. I'm hesitant to call Trumpism fascist because its ideology is ad-hoc. Trump is a creature of an infantile psychology and the MAGA movement will retroactively formalize whatever he says into an ideology simply because he said it. If Trump somehow woke up a social democrat, they'd be die-hard social democrats, which I don't think would apply to a truly fascist movement.
I guess where I see the fundamental problem is that, though there are many parallels to fascism, I just don't see America abandoning cultural liberalism. That's to say, I think there's a strong likelihood that we'll start to mirror many features of fascism in terms of political power, but I don't think we'll have the sort of highly-regimented cultural conservatism that characterized fascist regimes. But there will be a veneer of liberalism, and I think that pseudo-liberalism will actually be instrumental to drawing the "us versus them" distinction needed to take aggressive acts on the world stage.
I think we're mostly in agreement but are just debating the terminology.
The problem with Trumpism is that it requires support from a lot of people who are either evil or easily manipulated. When Trump goes away this isn't going to suddenly end.
Basically the entire Republican party at a federal level has decided that Trump is above the law and the constitution. We are in a situation where a person who openly tried to overturn an election and fomented an insurrection was put back in power by a party that should have never allowed him to run under their banner the first time.
It should be clear to everyone that all the things we used to think about American culture and democracy are just empty words and window dressing to a pretty large portion of the general population and elected officials.
As David Frum famously said:
"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." I think that's been proven just by the fact that Trump isn't in jail.
It's time for the remaining democracies of the world to create Radio Free America; a media outlet broadcasting accurate information to citizens in American countries where the press is censored or suppressed.