"I want to work with the more sane elements of the Nazi Party and find compromises that help them rehabilitate the party. We should try to encourage the Nazis closer to the center to work with us on our shared values for real solutions for everyone"
Is how it sounds these days.
They just tried to murder Congress. Not a fringe element. Not a handful of protestors. A gang of fascists directed by the President in an attempt to overturn a democratic election that overcame their systemic disenfranchisement, abetted by over 100 representatives and Senators.
The Republican Party is a party so opposed to Black people voting that it dedicated itself to the overthrow of the U.S. government.
That's how it should be talked about, and that's how it should be treated, in public opinion, and under the law.
Because that's what it is.
I disagree with people all the time about all sorts of things without thinking they're Nazis.
But oops the President sent a crowd containing actual Nazis to murder Congress on Wednesday and he told them he loved them and he has his party's support so.
Rep Peter Meijer is my rep. He is in a party where his colleagues perform fascist acts of propaganda for profit or because they fear violent retribution from their fascist constituents, and he knows this, and he nevertheless stays in his fascist party. So much for him.
The incentive for leaving a fascist party is no longer belonging to a fascist party. It’s not our job to provide additional enticement. It’s our job to oppose.
If not accepting fascism is extreme, let us be extreme.
Let’s stop and list all the incredible accomplishments of our favorite heroes through history who worked to fight for change from the inside as loyal members of a fascist party.
People really don't seem to have taken on board how bad what happened was, or how bad it might still prove to be; they certainly haven't realized just how bad it could have been.
They fucking denied the National Guard. It was orchestrated.
The complacency here is astonishing.
Anyway it sort of feels that if we'd be wrong about the Republican party being a fascist white supremacist party the leader they still protect and support wouldn't have sent a crowd full of Nazis to murder Congress on Wednesday, I dunno.
I actually think the standards for elected representatives should be very high and the bar at which you should have to resign should be very low.
These positions should be treated as the sacred trust they are, not as unassailable fortified positions free of consequence.
Almost any clear breach of public trust should be career-ending. These positions should be treated as the sacred trust they are. Then we'd get the leaders we deserve.
Almost every president of my lifetime should have been impeached. At least three should have been removed.
Every Republican and a lot of Democrats would in a healthy society be tendering their resignations, is what I'm saying. Local state and national level.
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley shouldn't resign. They should be arrested already. They should be awaiting a quick trial.
Boldly locating the very important sliver of Venn overlap between “an insurrectionist mob, orchestrated by an authoritarian president directly against the official recognition of his opponent’s electoral victory for purpose of overturning the election” and “not a coup.”
It's the same reason that Trump didn't really mean the Nazis when he said "many fine people," or didn't really mean the Nazis when he told them "stand down and stand by" or didn't really mean the Nazis when this week he said "I love you." Or else they aren't *really* Nazis.