Out Of His Own Mouth Maine's Shame, The Deranged 38% Governor Paul LePage Is Calling For Fascism

By ESME CRIBB Published OCTOBER 11, 2016, 10:51 AM EDT 

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) praised Donald Trump as a leader who would "show some authoritarian power" on Tuesday, even as he slammed President Barack Obama as an "autocrat."

"We need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law," LePage said in an interview with Maine radio station WVOM.

He went on to compare Trump to Obama, decrying the President as "an autocrat" who ignores Congress and "just does it on his own."

As Maine's Sun Journal newspaper noted, the dictionary defines "autocrat" as a person who behaves in an authoritarian manner.

LePage was seemingly unconcerned by Trump’s comments about forcing himself on women in a 2005 video that resurfaced last week, but conceded that Trump is not the "ideal guy I'd want my daughter going after.”

Lauren LePage, the Maine governor’s daughter, was hired in August by the Trump campaign as state coalitions director.

I remember the first time I heard the NPR idiot Susan Stamberg breezily mouthing the line, "The first one to say "fascist" loses, " and the thing I remember doing was thinking how convenient that conventional rule of the pop culture common wisdom would be for fascists.   Well, now we've got 'em and they're in office and they're not that far from running the country.   One is already running my state and a number of others.   

And, note, Paul LePage is a crackpot who thinks Barack Obama, who can't even get his Supreme Court nominee a hearing in the Republican Senate is an "autocrat" as part of his call for Republicans to rule as fascists.   Given that his guy has already said he was ready to guarantee his cheering supporters that he would put his political opponent in prison, this is the real thing, people, what it looks like when it's starting to happen here.

If Trump gets more than 25% of the vote - and who knows how the next month will go - this isn't a bullet dodged, it's a red-flag warning that we are, in no uncertain terms, in danger of the fascists the media are too genteel to call that winning and turning the country into a fascist dictatorship.