Looking at different ideologies, the Republican has many fascists, the Democrats has no communists and only a tiny minority dare criticize capitalist. That pretty much settles it, the US has no leftist party.
The generally accepted definition of a leftist is someone that opposes capitalism. There is no real political force in the US that opposes capitalism, so the US doesn't have a left. It has a center, and a right-to-far-right,
Its too bad that, for many people, fascist has just become the default insult for people you don't agree with politically. It actually has a very specific meaning. Read the wikipedia article on fascism and you will he hard pressed to find an actual fascist in the public sphere on any political level.
I agree that the words "fascist" and "fascism" have practically been worn out by misuse and overuse, but Trump has mutated the Republican Party into something that, to my eyes, meets most common definitions of Fascism, and looking at the wikipedia article you mention seems to confirm my thoughts on this: they describe fascism as "a form of far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalism" and mention protectionism, and economic interventionism, and opposition to liberal democracy, among other things. I would be interested to hear how the Trump administration is different in concept from the description outlined by the wikipedia page.
There are people in the Republican party that believe in the white Genocide, that Jewish billionaires are financing genetic warfare against white people. Their solution is essentially fascism.
Read up a bit about fascism. You'll find that's it's not just the Nazis in 1942.
> The generally accepted definition of a leftist is someone that opposes capitalism.
This is a very broken and poor working definition. You can be leftist without being anti capitalist. Leftists don't believe in the "free market fixes things" or trickle down rhetorics. Speaking as a left leaning Canadian.
Leftist capitalism would see government regulation over industry which is of vital societal importance. America has bodies regulating food, medicine, construction, and others. Leftist capitalism often seeks to extend regulations to the benefit of the average citizen.
One example is Canada recently forcing telecoms to unlock phones. Another might be provincial transportation services being either government owned or privately owned with a high degree of government oversight. Their prices then remain low with moderate levels of profitability instead of high prices seeking higher levels of profit.
I'd say the majority of leftists believe capitalism needs to be carefully kept in check, with only more extreme believing it should be abolished. Though many do believe certain industries require far more government oversight than they currently have, or that certain things like health care or education should be made into a social service.
Do you believe that capitalism is the best economic system possible that will ever be, and that simply adjusting it will forever be the limit of economic theory? And by capitalism, I mean capitalism, not just markets.
If so, I'd say you are a left-leaning liberal, not a leftist. Economically, you are firmly in the center.
What fascists? All of our elected officials are either left-flavored neoliberals or right-flavored neoliberals. The only exceptions I can think of are one self proclaimed socialist (Sanders) and one libertarian (Paul). Certainly no elected communists.
Europe has a much greater variety of politicians (right and left) than America. The center/left/right paradigm doesn't make much sense here (as much as compressing all possible political positions into a 1-dimensional spectrum makes sense anyway.)
As requested, as provided. Anyone who preaches the supremacy of the white race I think can be fairly characterized as fascist.
The majority of Republicans are indeed neoliberals, but there are and have been avowed white supremacists and fascists. Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.
While racial supremacism and facism obviously work well together (especially if you can confuse racial identity with national identity), they aren't actually related and King only seems to support the former. He seems like a rather revolting person from what I bothered to read of the Wikipedia page, but I don't see anything to support "the Republican has many fascists", unless you're going by a suffiently broad definition of "facist" as to include most of the US congress, Democrat or Republican, which doesn't seem to be what you're asserting.
Steve King isn't the only one, and as far as I know he is still a member of the Republican party.
When AOC shows support to a Marxist-Leninist State and party, and when she loudly claims for the seizure of the means of production, you'll have a point. So far, the most extreme thing she's advocating for is Nationalized Healthcare and investment in infrastructure. I don't really think you can equate that with complaining about the white genocide. Her policies and rhetoric are at the very most that of a left-leaning liberal anywhere else in the world.
So no, your argument doesn't really hold up.
If you're going to claim that the Democrats were collaborating with the Soviets, I'd like to remind you that Mccarthy was a Democrat.
Economic security for people who are unwilling to work is a basic feature of most advanced economies. See the BS in Québec, the RSI in France, and so on. There was a time in the US when it was a thing too.
Regardless of whether it's implemented in certain countries, the idea that society must support those unwilling to work seems to be quite far on left side of the spectrum.
The "you don't work - you don't eat" idea is not "rightists". It's just a basic law of nature.
"You don't work - you don't eat" isn't a reality anywhere in the world today. It's not a basic law of nature, it's a delusion. The world doesn't actually work like that.
Do you think that the Republicans are quite far on the left side of the spectrum? Because last I've heard they haven't repealed food stamps yet.
The generally accepted definition of a leftist is someone that opposes capitalism. There is no real political force in the US that opposes capitalism, so the US doesn't have a left. It has a center, and a right-to-far-right,