Because we're living through an inauthentically organized and/or astroturfed power grab at all levels in blue and moderate red regions, why do I have to keep saying this
Yes, they are literal war zones. This is a long-term, slow moving, mostly ideological war that leverages "small wars" and weaponized narratives to attack the concept of democracy and try to convince its participants that it does not work as advertised
in order to try to usher in an age of climate fascism.
By the way, I have to say "astroturfed and/or inauthentically organized" instead of just one or the other because if I don't a bunch of political scientists come yell at me lol
John T. Earnest, who at the time was a student at Mt. Carmel High School, a campus I attended in the 1990s and whose white supremacists tried heavily to recruit me even back then
(A previous version of this tweet had it as Center for National Policy because these innocuous sounding names slip straight out of my head, as they are meant to do)
Inauthentic organization bearing fruit yet again. Many of these people are misrepresenting where they are from and whether they even have children in school