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Gary Kloner's avatar

A white nationalist leader cult threatens to gain power and get hold of the levers of government beginning in 2022 with the retaking of congress and then the Presidency in 2024. The core animating force of the movement was and has always been fear and resentment of brown or black people of different races! Illegals coming in over the border, black and other minorities populations voting are seen as key threats to the white nationalist order. Race is the movement's fall back position for every problem society faces.

Florida Gov. DeSantis fired back at Biden after the President said “I say to these governors: Please help. But if you aren't going to help, at least get out of the way,” DeSantis says “Joe Biden has the nerve to tell me to get out of the way on COVID while he lets COVID-infected migrants pour over our southern border by the hundreds of thousands. No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies.”

What's apparent in MAGA's white nationalist appeal is its latent fascism. It is a desire to have a white Christian racially pure majority in control of the country and for brown and other ethnic minority populations to be disenfranchised from political power through drastic voter suppression laws backed up and enforced by corrupted state officials who are blindly loyal to Trump and his big lie. Many parts of the loyal Trump base remain heavily armed and locked and loaded. If they succeed in retaking control of the government, Tucker Carlson's week-long preview of Victor Orban's Hungary may be just the beginning.

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Susan Cortilet Jones (link ⬇️)'s avatar

Although you mention a cross section of groups that Facist dictators target, in the US the target contemporaneously (white nationalists/conspiracists) and historically (slavery) has been people of African descent and Indigenous communities (Manifest Destiny, reservations and boarding schools). Isabel Wilkerson in “Caste” writes about the influence of the treatment of colonizers towards those they claimed to “own” as inspirational for Hitler in methods used to torture and dehumanize Jews. ‘Tucker and friends’ have their sights directly on black and brown Americans and are using a bullhorn to signal they are ‘winning’ by attempting to manipulate, demoralize and desensitize all Americans to a uniquely American blueprint of voter suppression, minority, kleptocratic, Second Amendment loving and white evangelical rule. Rupert Murdoch, the Koch’s, Republican Governor’s, state and congressional representatives are bulldozing their way to a country most of us thought inconceivable a decade ago. “It can’t get worse” has been the reporting by media on a daily basis for the past 6 years and everyday is worse!

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