A fascist is a follower of a political philosophy characterized by authoritarian views and a strong central government — and no tolerance for opposing opinions.
vocabulary.com*The big news in marijuana legalization is that the Trump administration is rolling back the Obama rules that paved the way for states to legalize pot within their own borders. This has been met with screams of "Fascist!", "Dictator!", "Tyrant!", etc.
There's only one problem with this criticism, it's about as intelligent as Jeff Spicoli.
You see, according to existing federal law, marijuana is illegal. Since federal law supersedes state law when they overlap, and in this case they do, it is up to congress to make marijuana legal or stay mute on the subject. And they should. But instead of leading congress to do that the constitutional way, Barack Obama acted as an authoritarian and single-handedly re-wrote the federal statute to allow states to supersede federal law.
This was not bowing to states rights. It was the authoritarian intervention of a strong central government run by a single man - in other words, a fascist.
So no, Donald Trump is not the fascist here. Barack Obama was. Now congress will have to act to undo marijuana illelegality from a federal standpoint. That will then leave it up to the states to decide for themselves what they want to do within their own borders, thus properly restoring state's rights on this issue.
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