What should you call Trump voters who claim they don’t agree with everything he says or does? Certainly not a conservative. MAGA is the farthest thing from true conservatism. Conservatives value order and stability. MAGA is all about chaos and disorder.

I considered calling them cafeteria Trumpers but that’s too benign. Instead, these foolish folks are Fascist fellow travelers. Fellow traveler was a derisive term used in the mid-20th Century to describe people who weren’t Communist Party members but followed the party line. Come on down, Uncle Joe Stalin.

Here’s the Merriam-Webster definition of fellow traveler:

 a person who sympathizes with and often furthers the ideals and program of an organized group (such as the Communist party) without membership in the group or regular participation in its activities.”

That describes many Trumpers whose only political activity is vicariously owning the libs via Trump’s twitty tweets and truths. They’re low information voters who dine at the MAGA buffet picking and choosing which lies they want to swallow. The worst lies all involve the Dipshit Insurrection and the 2020 election.

Repeat after me: Flooding the zone with shit worked.

Fascist fellow travelers claim they like Trump because he’s good on inflation and the economy. That’s because he’s rich and rich people know economics, right? Wrong. The Insult Comedian has gone bankrupt and failed at running a casino of all things. His current side hustle is shaking down MAGA maggots and fellow travelers. Trump should send John Roberts a thank you note for legalizing dark money in the Citizens United case. Roberts is the ultimate Fascist fellow traveler: he’s too polite to be pure MAGA but he’s become Trump’s Roy Cohn.

Fellow Travelers is also the title of a Showtime series about gay G-Men during the Red Scare. I expanded the definition of G-Men from FBI agents to everyone who works for the federal government because gay G-Men scans. I haven’t seen the series, but I’ve heard it’s pretty good, so I’ll give it a shot. Why the hell not?

The featured image is of Charlie Chaplin and Jack Oakie as dictators Hynkel and Napaloni in The Great Dictator. I chose it because TCM’s schedule on the day after the inauguration was loaded with anti-Nazi Movies: Black Legion, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Mortal Storm, The Great Dictator, The Seventh Cross, and Edge Of Darkness.

Somebody at TCM is as eager to punch Nazis as Captain America:

In the featured image, Hynkel and Napaloni are making the same “hand gesture” as Elon Musk:

Roman salute, my ass. Mussolini stole it from them, then Hitler stole it from Musso. There’s no honor among political thieves.

The next time you’re obliged to talk to a cafeteria Trumper, call them a Fascist fellow traveler. You’ll have to explain what that means but it will blow the mind of anyone who thinks the right side won World War II or as I call it, the ultimate happy ending.

You say cafeteria Trumpers, I say Fascist fellow travelers. Let’s call the whole thing off.

The last word goes to Elvis Costello with an anti-Fascist anthem from 1978: