It’s interesting to note that the same people who pop up with “fascism expert here!” whenever anyone suggests that we ought to change the sales-tax rate always seem to stay deathly silent after, say, a man throws Molotov cocktails at Jews in a public park.
However tenuous, it always “says so much”; there’s always a “pattern” we must “unpack”; there’s always a “link” we must “discern.” Until it’s actually a guy throwing glass bottles full of fire at Jews, at which point it’s unworthy of historical parallel.
Deregulation, tariffs, unitary executive theory, charter schools, immigration enforcement, spending cuts, patriotism—all these things get the @ruthbenghiat treatment. But firebombing Jewish people? That's ignored.
@ruthbenghiat I mean that quite literally. Since yesterday,
@ruthbenghiat—the "expert here!" queen—has described DOGE as a "crime against humanity" and explained how America is a "gangster state." Nothing on this. The real threat, you see, is Lindsey Graham.
@ruthbenghiat—the "expert here!" queen—has described DOGE as a "crime against humanity" and explained how America is a "gangster state." Nothing on this. The real threat, you see, is Lindsey Graham.
@ruthbenghiat The same is true of the headlines. The instinct of pretty much every outlet was to run a story titled, "Plausibly intentional glass-delivered partial-conflagration causes response near Rocky Mountain foothills."
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