Some Europeans call today's GOP the American Fascist Party.
It seems like an appropriate name. Most Republicans seem to have abandoned the GOP to join the Fascist trump cult.
Be that as it may, the real question is whether or not the new party is Evil.
Evil is a large philosophical question and I'm not sure there is enough agreement around to denigrate an entire party with that designation.
But, the is some agreement on designating some acts and policies as Evil regardless of who creates them.
The question arises: What is an Evil act and why is it Evil?
We need a definition of Evil, then, to look at Evil acts. I think it's fair to use the definition of Evil as the one that was developed after World War 2 at the Nuremburg trials of Nazi officials, many of whom were executed after those trials.
According to army psychologist Captain G. M. Gilbert, who was assigned to watch the Nuremburg trials after WW 2, Evil is a lack of empathy. Without empathy people can think that other people do not have human attributes and are little better than plants, rocks or livestock. That is to say, the Nazi's treated people like inanimate cut outs who felt no emotions and were thus able to be manipulated and abused without consequences.
In today's American Fascist Party, party leaders like Steve Miller and Donald Trump may gain support from some voters by treating immigrants to the United States as less than human. They may calculate that deporting immigrants without due process will gain them fear in the population and possible votes from supporters. Whatever consequences befall the deportee or his family are of no consequence since the people deported do not possess humanity.
Clearly, some acts by the American Fascist Party are Evil in nature.
I will leave to others the judgment of whether or not that means that the entire American Fascist Party is evil or whether the individual Party leaders are evil people.
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