Thread by @gwensnyderPHL

I really want to emphasize again that while astroturf/propaganda forces are certainly at work with this US anti-vaxx convoy copycat thing, what I am seeing locally is emergent grassroots organizing, and that should be DEEPLY concerning to anyone who cares about fascist creep.

https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1491125859235041281

These folks are buying up snacks and dog food and Miller Lite with their own money to give to the truckers they imagine they'll join.

They're meeting at local businesses and brainstorming possible convoy food drives in Walmart parking lots.

They're not operatives, they're real estate agents and stay at home moms and substitute teachers.

(Not to make them sound like working heroes or anything-- the real estate agent I'm watching hangs with extremely racist Proud Boys, and the substitute teacher thinks Soros is the devil and called me an atheist Jew in need of a nose job)

My point is, there's plenty of inorganic mischief, but I watch inorganic mischief all the time.

This is different, and it reminds me of early grassroots energy around Occupy.

(And if you're new to the show, I'm saying that as someone who was deeply involved in Occupy)

It could still fizzle-- national level stuff is a mess, and this will take coordination-- but local networks are already getting built.

Those are relationship networks that will hell support the next big fascist organizing push, and the next, and the next.

Don't underestimate the power of that network-building.

It will support scary stuff, now and in the future.

They have the kind of energy and momentum community organizers struggle to build.

*help, not hell