From MSNBC's opinion writer Zeeshan Aleem on the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) fuehrer-fest last weekend, and the newly-accepted presence of Nazis, something that was discouraged years ago:
"According to an NBC News report, 'a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed ‘race science’ and antisemitic conspiracy theories.' (Hitler’s Nazi Party was officially called the 'National Socialist German Workers’ Party.') The reporter of the article has video of one of them giving a 'heil Hitler'-style salute in the lobby of the hotel where the conference took place and of other members of the group reportedly used the N-word.
This is a critical frog-in-boiling-water moment for the right: The mainstream organs of American conservatism are apparently acclimating to Nazis in their pot. That this group was able to mingle with participants at a high-profile conference, wasn't kicked out of CPAC, and wasn't appropriately condemned is a sign of how contiguous mainstream conservatism has become with white supremacist politics today." (our emphasis)
As the far right's cult leader gets more desperate with his multiple indictments, trials and fines, he will issue increasingly unhinged "orders" to his cult, including the depraved cretins that showed up at CPAC, to disregard rules and law and to seize instruments of power and justice. The "water" has been heating for some time, and the Malignant Loser can be counted on to crank up the heat quickly as the election approaches.
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(transcribed from a series of tweets) - @iamragesparkle
"I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all."
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