My in-under-the-wire 1/6 anniversary hot take is that none of this is over, the far right is using COVID denialism to put all our lives at risk, and that centrist Dems continue to abet fascists by continually downplaying the existential threats they're exploiting.
My hot take for other folks who study the far right is that although far right accelerationism can seem a little like a passé fad that carceral "extremism studies" types are trying to prop up Weekend at Bernie's-style, the reality is that accelerationism has mainstreamed.
I don't mean that in the sense that every Young Republican is reading Siege, I mean that there's now a non-fringe accelerationist tendency that has permeated the entire right, centered around COVID denialism and playing out at a local level in school districts across the country.
Some of these folks believe their own bullshit, some are spreading disinformation knowingly, but the common thread is a willingness and increasingly an eagerness to destabilize and divide to the point of civil war.
The coup didn't give them their boogaloo, but this might.
The coup didn't give them their boogaloo, but this might.
We need to be exceedingly clear on the fact that the COVID denialism movement is not only fascist but accelerationist, and we need to treat it as such.
(And by that I mean exposing them for what they are, not ceding ground to tired War on Terror retread CVE-type "experts')
(And by that I mean exposing them for what they are, not ceding ground to tired War on Terror retread CVE-type "experts')
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