1. We all must stop using the term “conservative” as the catch-all that includes radically regressive, white supremacist, hyper-nationalist, racist seditionists and insurrectionists. In a word: they are #FASCISTS, and as such represent clear and present danger.
2. Sedition started with the ratcheting up of the radicalization of American white right-wingers white “evangelicals.” The concurrent normalization of white supremacy, carefully/consistently presented by propaganda-feeds (Fox/OANN/Breitbart etc) helped it spread like a pandemic.
3. Insurrection was a natural result of this process. Those behind the rise of American #fascism knew exactly what they were doing. They followed a recipe—they got the expected result.
4. Only by accurately recognizing this truth, and then consistently identifying, confronting, countering and ultimately crushing #fascism, can we hope to have democracy survive. We must stop the #GOPSeditiousTraitors, stat.
5 This prescient piece, written 2 years ago, is worth re-reading today. Much of what we are suffering now can be traced to Bannon’s cruel genius/ back-room maneuvering. lithub.com/fascism-is-not…
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