The gears have been moving for a long time. The scene is set. It is likely that fascism is already here:
The party that tried to steal the election and contains members of an insurrection is about to win control of the House and already controls several states and the courts. We’ve been in denial for two years but after November it will be harder to hide our heads in the sand.
— Werner Herzog's Bear (@jason_tebbe) October 13, 2022
Fascism isn’t coming, it’s already here. The election of 2020 was just a blip. Long term there’s no way they don’t win. Our system is rigged in their favor and most of their opponents lack the capacity to understand the reality of the current situation.
— Werner Herzog's Bear (@jason_tebbe) October 13, 2022
To which, this response:
The thing I hate most abt the discourse around 1/6 is the supposition that democracy prevailed, even as Republicans have done everything in their power since then to rig our election & judicial systems to destroy democracy from within. https://t.co/kHB6ExIyEK
— Dr. William Horne (@wihorne) October 13, 2022
The organizers of the Insurrection have faced virtually no consequences whatsoever. Many remain in power & are now in the process of banning books, protests, abortion, immigration, teaching abt white supremacy, & trans persons.
— Dr. William Horne (@wihorne) October 13, 2022
Like, if we just *described* what is happening, it would be difficult to escape the conclusion that we’re deeply fucked, barring some kind of mass movement. Triggering that mass movement is, atm, our best hope (& yes that includes voting too).
— Dr. William Horne (@wihorne) October 13, 2022
The Republican Party is the instrument of a right wing extremist movement out to replace democracy but normie moderate voters still think of it as one of two centrist options to alternate between and the media has done nothing to alter that understanding.
— Werner Herzog's Bear (@jason_tebbe) October 17, 2022
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As usual this is actually a story about the radicalization of the Republican Party. But instead of stating the dangers in clear, simple terms, it pretends we're having some sort of philosophical debate about interventionism. pic.twitter.com/rFgdACQR6u
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) October 16, 2022
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"'Good speech' cannot balance 'bad speech' when the bad speech is fascist, because fascists use violence or the threat of violence to silence their targets." — Jude Ellison S. Doyle, KiwiFarms Went Down. Now Everything is KiwiFarms., Medium, September 7, 2023
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An article in the Federalist called "We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives":
"Re the explicitly pro-fascism article that's going around, white conservatism in the U.S. was never "conservative." There's nothing intrinsically "limited" abt using the state as an explicit instrument of white power, as white conservatives have historically done."(tweet)Oh lord, I read the summary of it in today's news update from @HC_Richardson and am afraid to read the actual article. But will need to. What I saw of it was terrifying. On Nov 8, I'm going to vote like my family's, friends', and neighbors' lives depend on it, because they do.
— Тётя Маша (@BMWsJoy) October 21, 2022
Oh wow, this blew up overnight. If we're just meeting I write about the GOP's march to fascism a lot in my newsletter. It's free and you can subscribe here. https://t.co/hfNrWooUMp
— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) October 21, 2022
Something that has been on my mind for the last...several weeks is that in 2015/2016, when people were calling certain figures on the "Alt-Right" Fascists and Nazis, people were saying, "no, you can't call everyone a Nazi because it dilutes what that word means."
— Brandon (@blgtylr) October 25, 2022
Remember: According to significant portions of the “moderate” / centrist pundit sphere, the real problem is liberals using the term “fascism” too much to raise the alarm about blatantly, aggressively fascistic elements on the Right that are being elevated by the Republican Party. pic.twitter.com/ueJg4304uw
— Thomas Zimmer (@tzimmer_history) November 5, 2022
Had forgotten that the Stanford Federalist Society, reflecting their commitment to free speech, has tried to block a student from graduating after he posted a satirical flier https://t.co/z6ql42C9mY
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 15, 2023
legal conservatives moving toward open embrace of minority rule https://t.co/mbfhrZBFwg
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 18, 2023
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