Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

See what I mean? Using the term "parasites" is exactly what antisemites did in the 1930s. Not standing up to them led to WWII and the Holocaust.

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https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1476350491659587593

This whole controversy today with MTG calling for a "National Divorce" aka civil war like so many other Trumpy public figures do, is a near-perfect object lesson for our time. I'll explain why...

How did we get to the point where saying "These people are parasites, ruining one place after another" is no big deal to a group of many millions of American voters - and is even applauded?

Because they weren't stopped when they were a much smaller group.

First step: Trump actively fails to respond appropriately to a pandemic, then tries to take credit for Operation Warp Speed, which he had nothing do to with.

Next step: Trump gets vaccinated on the downlow just before leaving office (kicking and screaming) iso promoting vax.

In (around) Feb 2021 it was reported in the media that he and his wife had been vaccinated against Covid back in Dec-Jan.

I noticed it and so did millions of Americans, including many of his more law abiding supporters. It was no big deal to them at the time.

Then for almost the whole year, he fails to encourage vaccination, until his 4-night speaking tour (weirdly) with the disgraced Bill O'Reilly, in front of ridiculously empty venues.

He starts talking about being vaccinated & for the 2nd time this year is booed by his own crowd.

There was also an interview with grifter and race baiter Candace Owens.

So he asks for advice from a PR fixer and oila! his messaging gets a pretzel-like reframing through the even more of a fascist wannabe, Rep. MTG.

Then she, in turn:

... liked the look of the nakedly extremist commentary of Claremont Institute hack, Pedro L. Gonzalez, so she gives him a boost. This guy doesn't even try to hide his far right fascist beliefs.

Republican voters are sliding down into the abyss by supporting people like these.

He'll claim he can't be a white supremacist because he is Latino.

Absolutely, people of ANY race can be supporters of white supremacy. Some of them don't even realize it (although I'm pretty sure Pedro does.)

More than willing to back up my above claims, with logic & credible evidence.

Until 2021 I didn't know what I didn't know, about contemporary white supremacy / nationalism in the US.

I'm grateful for the #BlackLivesMatter mvt's response to the murder of George Floyd bc:

The unrelenting coverage in 2020 of race in US history and politics led to a large number of people worldwide opening their minds to "both sides" of the story.

I had largely stuck to one side's version, without being aware of it. As a pol sci grad, I know better. Mea culpa.

Pedro, Marjorie, and Donald want their followers to believe the cynical claims their movement makes about any of the minority groups we are in or live alongside, whether it's about race, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, religion, or disability.

This is fascism.

This manufactured dust-up is also diverting attention from the historic guilty verdicts reported today against Ghislaine Maxwell.

The shadow just darkened a little more over past associates like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Mr Andrew York (I don't grant him titles now.)

These two Twitter headlines point to events and developments that are highly relevant to the way the world is today.

Pick a side. Pro-democracy or anti-democracy. Law abiding or criminal enabling.

It was an easy decision for me.

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