The Republican Reich views their failure to establish a totalitarian white homeland as a reason for violent civil war. It's not new. Trump is an excuse and a symptom, not a cause. This was going on long before Trump's infamous visit to the Ritz Carlton Hotel. This morning I found an excellent article by Daily Kos staff writer David Neiwert on the history of this phenomenon.
We’ll never know for certain whether accused domestic-terrorist-in-the-making Christopher Hasson ever would have acted on the desire to spark a racial civil war for white supremacy by committing the assassinations and mass killing for which he had so thoroughly prepared and about which he endlessly fantasized. We do know, however, exactly what might have been the spark to send the 49-year-old Coast Guardsman from Baltimore off on a killing rampage, though: the impeachment of President Trump.
Buried in Hasson’s deleted emails, along with correspondence to neo-Nazi leaders and ruminations on his admiration for Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, were his working notes for events around which he was planning actions, notably: “what if trump illegally impeached” and “civil war if trump impeached”.
As Chris Hayes adroitly observed, it’s not hard to find where Hasson might have obtained the belief that civil war would erupt if President Trump were to face impeachment: Civil war has become an endemic talking point and source of speculation among right-wing pundits. Only this week, longtime Republican operative Joseph diGenova went on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show and warned:
We are in a civil war in this country. There's two standards of justice, one for Democrats, one for Republicans. The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left—they hate Republicans, they hate Trump. So the suggestion that there's ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over. It's not going to be. It's going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two things—I vote and I buy guns.
This seemingly hysterical pronouncement, in fact, is fast becoming a commonplace among right-wing pundits. (Watch for it to become a permanent talking point at Fox.) That’s because it has been circulating on the right for a good long while now, and is now being whipped up to new heights—notably, well into the mainstream of conservative-movement discourse… [emphasis added]
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I encourage you to click through and read the article in it's entirety. David built it around the following four four video clips, totaling about forty minutes. Consider this a "Barf Bag Alert!!" for all of them. They are raw. They are hate filled. And they represent today's Republican Reich.
The radical right's early civil war push: The Turner Diaries, The Order, and Tim McVeigh
Reaction to Obama's presidency fuels far-right revival, agitation for civil war
Conspiracy theorists, Klansmen and radio hosts talk up civil war as Obama's tenure wanes
Trump's defenders claim the radical left is trying to create the civil war they've been hoping for
Having seen these I trust you agree that merely defeating the Republican Reich is not enough. The Republican Party must either be transformed into an organization that values decency and what's best for Americans, or it must be eradicated.
RESIST!!
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Shocking to see a Republican get something CORRECT – and yet, so wrong:
"There's two standards of justice, one for Democrats, one for Republicans."
That's absolutely correct – not in the way he thinks, though. If you are Republican, you are allowed to do anything, up to and including murder and treason, and have the full support of your party. If you are a Democrat, not so much. (And who does he think owns all the media – including and especially the media he is talking on?)
Maybe I'm being paranoid or silly, but I fear that we really are headed for a civil war – and the reich-wing bugnuts want one.
Tom, your picture says it all, we're living in scary times now, and the repugs are stokin' the fire….
Excellent post, thx.
Great article. We are inded living in formidable time here and around the world.
Thank you TomCat.
DiGenova, and his view of the left hating Republicans is both self-serving, and mistaken. It islike G.W.Bush's iditic claim that "There is a war against Jesus!" No, there is/was pshback against having Jesus shoved down people's throats, especuially their version of Jesus! Republicans have been waging war on the country, as a whole, forn years. It escalated when the Tea Party presented itself, presented a "Not negoiating with anybody!" self. Their war aginst the middle class involved the GOP coming up with more, and more lies, like "Trickle down!" Bush and Cheney lied their way into the ongoing 17 yr. war. Corporate America emptied out the mid-west, especially, of all the jobs they shipped overseas, and so on. The BIGOTRY of the GOP, and its supporters, helped elect Drumph, who lies incessantly. McConnell decides that they will oppose ANYTHING Pres. Obama proposes. And, etc!!!! No, the left does not hate Rpublicans, from my perspective, we hate their behavior, and what they have very purposely become! So, what did they expect pepole to do, lie down and ask them to put on stiletto heels the next time they want to walk on us? They have created the situation they now blame us for…but that is nothing new, for them!
Great article and videos.
Agree with others that we are living in very scary times here and all over our world.
I'm on a slow a limited hotel internet connection the coming for a few days, so I won't be able to see much videos, if any. But perhaps I would have given these a miss anyway; I can really do without so much Drumpfian hate-spewing right now. Sadly I do have to acknowledge your message though, a part of America is being coaxed into a civil war. Fortunately it is the smallest part of the country, but it is almost the most dangerous, i.e. ammosexual, uneducated and gullible part. And that is very scary indeed. Because while the far-right Republicans are generally incapable, there's one thing they are good at and that is manipulate the minds of these Drumpfians of which Hasson is just the example who got caught.
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen to all.
From my perch north of the 49th, I see so much vitriolic nastiness from the right — think Michael Savage, Alex Jones and others — but little from the left. There are, I am sure, extremists on both ends of the left-right continuum, but the right deflects their paranoia onto the left. Just listen to bugnut (love that word Freda) Alex Jones as he rants to get the flavour of the paranoia — forced labour camps for 50 million people. And the right refers to themselves as patriots??? True patriots accept their country, warts and all, and try to build consensus not foment violence.
As I said a few days ago, the Clerk of the Privy Council in Canada lamented the violence in political discourse — a Conservative senator from Saskatchewan said every liberal should be run over. The senator has not apologised but he has put context to the comment and also said his word choice could have been better. Look at Trump and how he incited violence during his rallies and in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he continues to do so.
The Youngbloods song from yesterday's Open Thread is so appropriate.
BTW, great graphic but sad. The implication that the US government (read Trump administration) is bombing Lady Liberty. As I have said before, France should repossess the Statue of Liberty. In the current climate, the US has lost the right to say "leader of the free world" and "land of freedom".