New piece from The Atlantic examining how elements of Nazi imagery, rhetoric, and sympathies have surfaced within the contemporary Republican Party and its youth wings, and what that says about political realignment and ideological boundaries in the GOP. Worth a read and discussion.
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you don’t say
many people saying this!
The Feces Party has a Poop Problem
Well unfortunately for liberals not being a nazi is not enough. That piece about blue cities really pissed a lot of people off but had some harsh truths that people don’t want to acknowledge
It’s not a “nazi problem”, it’s an authoritarian nativist problem: that’s the core of it. Some are literal nazis, sure. But at this point, to imply that the problem with republicans stems a nazi faction gives them a way out. We have concentration camps, we have extrajudicial killings and detainments, we have unidentified paramilitary forces in the streets. The ultimate focus of their hate is not Jews and that’s unlikely to change (not that it isn’t *a* group of their hate at times), but they are rotten nonetheless, their only saving grace from being as bad as the Nazis is scale, not the primary group of which they focus their hate towards.