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1731
rating
167
debates
73.05%
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Topic
#2776

Trumpism is closer to Fascism than Nazism is to Communism

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
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Better sources
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After not so many votes...

It's a tie!
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
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1500
rating
13
debates
42.31%
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Description

This was originally the BoP for her debate in which it is proposed that Fascism *is* Trumpism. I will argue what she was trying to argue this time.

Definitions not specified here, however any definition given within the rounds must have a reputable source or else they will be regarded as nonsense.

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@fauxlaw

> Joe Biden at 392.3 EOs per year

Wait, he's already at about 1600?! ... That seems nigh impossible in such a short amount of time, when contrasted against his closest contenders who had years to build momentum. Is he writing down each item for his McDonalds order as an Executive Order or something like that?

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@fauxlaw

Not sure why I wasn't notified of this comment sooner. That's some pretty fascinating statistics, and I would have imagined each president issues more than the last (on average), with the exception of the WWI and WWII periods. It's hard to see without a chronological sort though.

I'm curious whether Biden maintains his record-breaking EO rate.

Although it has naught to do with this debate, it is curious that "authoritarian" is a discussed concept, and that Trump is exemplified by Pro as "authoritarian." One gage of that categorical designation is number of issued EOs. Over his tenure, according to my favorite site [Wiki], Trump issued 55.0 EOs per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders

That's a lot, until one considers others in modern time:

Carter: 80.0 pert year
Ford: 69.1
Nixon: 63.2
Johnson 62.9
Kennedy: 75.4
Eisenhower: 60.5
Truman: 116.7
Roosevelt: 307.8

But, who is the record-holder for per-year number? Extrapolated, because he has actually only been in office for 27 days: Joe Biden at 392.3 EOs per year.

So, Trump is merely ordinary