Thread by @kurteichenwald

*The Rise & Continuing Threat of American Fascism*

It's not over. At least, MAGA fascists don't think so. If Trump is not removed, @GOP is greenlighting a terrorist movement & telling the world we've fallen.

Words below are from a real GOP official...1/xx
@tedlieu @RepRaskin

...posted on the official website linked from a state Republican Party website. The words are written by the chairman of a the country Republican Party. I will not link, because I don't want to send people there. However, this OFFICIAL @GOP site also declares Pence a traitor../2

...so the story they are telling is that Trump has now exposed traitors so he can move on them. Again, not a loony site, not Parler, an OFFICIAL GOP site with words written by that county's chairman.

Every delusion is there - the coup was Antifa, the election was a fraud.../3

...this kind of garbage is all over the GOP & conservative sites (this county also trafficks in "Q" conspiracies). These people live in an alternate reality. And that is a key step in the development of a fascist movement.

Fascism has 4 main elements. A strongman who is.../4

...viewed by rabid supporters as an infallible, near God; the creation of a fantasy world separated from demonstrable fact by conspiracy theories that benefit the strongman and his political cronies; hypernationalis; and the propaganda establishment of "the other" who is the.../6

...supposed threat to the way of life reflected in the fantasy, hypernationalistic rage and delusion. In fascist states, "the other" is most commonly immigrants and liberals, as well as Jews and other minorities.

Trumpism does not have "markers" of fascism. It IS fascism..../7

...why this matters: As those words from an official GOP website shows, these people still function under adelusion Trump is all powerful, & will somehow still be president. These people are also not bright, so when a @HawleyMO or @tedcruz appeals to their fascist instincts.../8

...they are accepted without question. This is why @HawleyMO and @tedcruz must be thrown out. They HAVE engaged in the big lie - in Germany, it was that Germany won WW1 but for the stab in the back. Here, it is that Trump won the election but for the stab in the back. Now.../9

...do not make ANY mistake. The end point of fascism is to destroy democracy. And any senator or congressman who indulges fascism by promoting delusions, who refuses to see this moment in our history as the threat it is, is a collaborator to fascism. The GOP literally has..../10

...a choice right now: Continue fluffing Trumpism, thus collaborating with fascism, or return to the America of our founders. We are in a severe amount of danger. Right now, there is plotting online of militias - which may or may not succeed - to launch a new attack on.../11

...Washington. And why wouldnt they? They believe - because @HawleyMO and @tedcruz and Trump told them so - that there was a massive fraud, that their strongman has been betrayed, that their country has been stolen. *They believe it.* So, when you have people who are prone.../12

...to believe in some endless domestic war, those "Gee it might help me in my next election" sleazebags are fueling the rage, delusions and paranoia. They are discussions about attacking on 1/17, 1/19 and 1/20. Making it worse, as we know from @MilesTaylorUSA and others.../13

...who fled Trump Administration, they have downplayed, ignored, & generally undermined all attempts to protect the country from its biggest terrorist threat: Right wing militants. I do not know, but given what I have heard, there is good reason to believe our intelligence.../14

...on these groups is now extremely weak, and we have done little in recent years to develop the needed penetrations and informant system necessary to disrupt these terrorist groups.

The impeachment of Trump is about far more than this man. It is a declaration of reality.../15

...a statement that what these people have been deluded to believe is in fact false. Many will not be persuaded - look how fast Pence became deemed a traitor - but if we do not take a stand, even those on the edge of radicalization will join in. This is about far more than.../16

...the coup attempt of Donald Trump. This is about a fight against fascism, which is what Trumpism now is.

Republicans who do nothing because it might hurt them in the polls care nothing for this country, and are unfit to serve. Do not underestimate how serious this is.
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