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Jan 31 10 tweets 3 min read
1. The DeSantis spokesperson should be ashamed (but of course won’t be)
2. The Lincoln Project people who pulled that stunt re. Youngkin should also be ashamed because of course this is how it would be deployed by the right.
This was the stupid as dirt stunt the supposed political geniuses at the Lincoln Project pulled. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/o…
There is nothing that right leaning Americans are more desperate to believe than that the terrible people to their right (who they agree with on 90% of things) aren’t really Nazis, they’re just plants paid by the left to make “patriots like us” look bad.
✅Think Democrats are Communists
✅Think vaccines and masks are steps to the gulag
✅Think “Woke Corporations” are too anti-white
✅Think (((they))) control the media and just call you a Nazi to avoid engaging with your brilliant ideas
☑️Actually celebrate Hitler’s birthday
As does this thread on the chair of the Oregon GOP in 1978, who worked extensively and amicably in the 80s and 90s with the “Hitler was like Jesus” woman.
Obviously not all Republican are Nazis. But you’ve got to be pretty damn naïve to think such people aren’t out there and haven’t been working like hell (with some success) to drag the GOP their direction.
When “conservative Christian Patriot” Walter Huss learned in 1965 that two of his protégés had shaved their heads and become neo-Nazis he shrugged and said “they don’t like Jews, I don’t like coffee.”
Huss said this because he was totally comfortable working in coalition with fascists in the name of “defeating the Communist menace.” This is the work that idiotic talk of “Communist Democrats” does for today’s GOP.
For those who don't believe there are groups of Nazis in the Orlando area, here you go. Really shouldn't be that hard for a Governor's spokesperson to say "these people are bad even though they agree with us on some policy issues."

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Jan 31
The Oregon state election of 1922 was known as "the Klan election." That election elevated Kaspar K. Kubli to the speaker of the house where he led a delegation that was almost majority KKK members. The state senate had such a majority. This is one of the first laws they passed. Image
A thread with more about this moment in Oregon history. Oregon had one of the highest per capita rates of KKK membership in the 20s.
The most important thing to know about the 2nd KKK is that it was comprised largely of middle class people who thought of themselves as “Christian Patriots” defending the nation from the “threat” of immigrants who were deemed racially, culturally, and religiously “other.”
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Jan 31
Strom was a close associate of Revilo Oliver, a neo-Nazi who began his career on the right as a John Birch Society member. Massie gave the keynote address at the JBS's 60th Anniversary meeting in 2018.
A good chunk of Oliver's correspondence is available online because Strom has curated it. I won't link to the site because of its Nazi associations, but it's useful for those who research the right. One example of the sorts of stories one can find there.
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Jan 31
What a Quixotic thing it is for him to be so fixated on the 2020 election. Susan Collins, just today, said she wouldn't rule out supporting him if he ran again. Pence has been quiet as a mouse since Jan 6. From a purely 2024 electoral standpoint, this is totally irrational.
Always tilting at windmill cancer, that one.
I guess he figures he can berate & belittle his closest allies all he wants & they'll kiss the ring regardless. It sure revs up his base, but having lost by 7 million votes, a rational GOP strategist must recognize that revving up the base and alienating everyone else won't work.
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Jan 28
Today I learned that there is a Historic Shovel Museum in North Easton, MA. And now you know that too. wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/hundre…
[Neil Young voice] 🎼There is a Shovel Museum, in North Easton.
I stumbled upon this piece of information in this obituary of a far right Oregon Tea Party activist who got rich manufacturing sealants and then founded that Shovel Museum to honor his ancestors who were Puritan shovel entrepreneurs. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…
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Jan 25
For folks who don’t know Cerno. He’s the guy who invented the “Hillary has pneumonia” story in 2016 to help Trump. He’s a cynical liar and propagandist, a slightly upscale Alex Jones. Anyone who believes anything he says is either a dupe, or also a cynical liar and propagandist.
This article is from 2016. Marantz’s excellent book, Antisocial, expands on this portrait. newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
He also bears some responsibility for teaching right wing trolls to use the word "narrative" to discredit fact-based stories they don't like. As in, "that story is just part of the left's narrative about" climate change, or vaccines, or racism, or Trump, or whatever.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 23
The idea that rules to encourage ppl to get a safe & effective vaccine are comparable to exterminating 6 million people is ludicrous. But one of our two major parties (and their media arms) would rather get the votes of such people than call out their bullshit. So here we are.
There's always been medical misinformation and quackery out there. There's a reason the term "snake oil salesman" is in our lexicon. It'll never go away. But political leaders who know better can make a choice not to amplify and legitimize it for their own benefit.
I also feel obliged to point out that there's long been a connection between right wing "alternative medicine" proponents and antisemitism. The Spotlight was produced by the same organization that spawned the IHR Holocaust denial organization.
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