Great segment on @allinwithchris on the American right’s open embrace of violence, including the presumed power of one group: conservative white Christians, to visit death on fellow citizens; to protect property, even if not theirs-or to undo an election that didn’t go their way.
There’s a long history of right wing violence that stretches all the way back to before this was a country— violence to keep enslaved people enslaved or to intimidate their descendants out of voting, or just to flex white nationalist power. And it has festered in both parties.
Republicans are having their go with the infestation, and they are showing no signs of wanting to shake off the virus. The quest for power — the desire to rule— and the temptations of this brand of low rent populism apparently are just too powerful to resist.
But watching the American right gleefully, almost lustfully embrace core violence; by conferring macabre celebrity for killing people or for waving guns at BLM marchers, urging a “kill shot” confrontation w/ Dr Fauci or brushing off mass death from COVID as “boring” is unnerving.
This isn’t even politics anymore. It’s some sick, fascistic glorification of death and violence in a naked thirst to rule by any means necessary. And the fact that this cult attracts so many Americans, many of whom are armed to the teeth, should make us all lose some sleep…
It’s all out in the open now.
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1473473568658767873
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