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What's happening in Florida with the GOP and Disney is incredibly important to understand.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
Conspiracy theories are going to get people killed and rights will be trampled, all while the rest of us are left begging corporations to do something about it
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Red State Republicans are aggressively attacking vulnerable populations with weaponized legislation paid for and designed by their wealthy donors.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
To get this accomplished, they're relying on QAnon conspiracy theories to frame the narrative.
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The entire strategy of the GOP right now is to use tested rhetoric and narratives to support their power grabs.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
This is an old trick, and it relies on the idea that this legislation and antidemocratic maneuvers are necessary to defeat Evil. It legitimizes anything.
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Though many mocked QAnon and dismissed it, what the conspiracy theory did was infect the GOP base, including many who had no idea what they were getting into.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
It gave them an operating framework in which to accept violence and antidemocratic actions.
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As always, it's important to remind people that QAnon is an update of the antisemitic, fascist conspiracy theory the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
Fascists use this story to legitimize their actions, including violence, coups, and takeovers.
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The Protocols/QAnon conspiracy theories claim that secret cabals of Jews are working behind the scenes to destroy nations and peoples.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
This constitutes an invisible "war" in which the very survival of the people and nation are on the line. Legitimizing any action.
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The QAnon conspiracy theory has become utterly inextricable from the GOP. It is at the base of everything they do, from the legislation they pass to the Big Lie that threatens our society.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
That poison has set in and it's being used by so many people.
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The incredibly wealthy donors who fund the GOP and their associated think tanks have used the QAnon narrative and fascist conspiracy theories to attack public education.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
This is about both controlling information but also privatizing the system.
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As a result, protests have sprouted up around the country by people who have no idea they're being weaponized by wealthy donors and think tanks.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
That narrative, that there's an invisible war, is incredibly effective and is taking hold in so many places.
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What's even more disturbing is that the same narrative peddled by QAnon and the Protocols of Zion is what empowers authoritarians like Viktor Orban.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 13, 2022
His entire power base, which the GOP desires, is about "protecting" Western Civilization from this imaginary threat.
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Speaking of Orban, this from HuffingtonPost in late July 2022:
Zsuzsa Hegedüs, "a longtime advisor to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban[,] resigned on Tuesday, calling one of his recent speeches “a pure Nazi text worthy of Goebbels” in reference to Joseph Goebbels, Germany’s minister of propaganda under Adolf Hitler.
* * *Speaking in Romania on Saturday [July 23, 2022], Orban called on Europeans to “not become peoples of mixed-race.”
Orban also denounced a proposal by the European Commission for countries to voluntarily cut their natural gas consumption by 15% in case Russia limits gas supplies to Europe. European energy ministers have since agreed to the proposal.
“I do not see how it will be enforced – although, as I understand it, the past shows us German know-how on that,” Orban said, in an apparent reference to the gas chambers used by the Nazis to kill Jewish people and others.
Hegedüs, who is Jewish, announced her resignation soon after.
It's not an accident:
Just so we’re clear, Republican controlled states aren’t just spontaneously passing the same bills capitalizing on conspiracy theories.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 10, 2022
It’s an orchestrated campaign by think tanks funded by incredibly wealthy people who want to destroy public education and further their agenda.
Those billionaires and millionaires funding the GOP and their universe of think tanks are dedicated to destroying government, democracy, and literally impediment to further enriching and empowering themselves.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 10, 2022
That’s what’s happening right now.
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