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Ultimately, voters have the right to vote for someone who has crazy ideas like the Muslim ban.

Those are illiberal.

Those are things that go against individual rights and freedoms are not

can i jump in there's a lot of there's a lot of straw men here nobody's saying they don't have

the right to vote for crazy ideas nobody's saying that all trump voters are fascists you use the

word authoritarian i'm fine with authoritarian i mean we're now into pedantry here i would argue many Trump voters would be very upset being called authoritarian, but you're calling Trump authoritarian. So let's agree. He is something that is not normal. He's a threat to democracy. He's not just anti-immigration, shoddy. He wanted to build a moat, put alligators in it, and shoot immigrants in the legs. If that is not fascism, I don't know what is.

By the way, I got to pause here and say that was actually Herman Kane's idea.

Herman Kane, who ran for president in 2012, had this saying that he wanted to build a 100-foot-high wall at the border,

and then a 100-foot-wide moat that was 100 feet deep and filled with alligators. And if you could cross the wall and then a hundred foot wide moat that was a hundred feet deep and filled with

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