The author of the piece is a former Republican. They actually flipped sides on the hate thing a few decades ago, but it took a while to get to the point where open Nazism instead of dog whistling was ok

For the author, pretty much. He’s been spending his time on BlueSky arguing that what we are seeing isn’t really fascism.

During the KKK era, the Democrats were the ones in favor of hate, while the Republicans were not. The parties radically flipped after the passage of the Civil Rights act as a direct result of Nixon making a decision to support the hate to win elections, though the full flip took decades to play out. We’re hitting the end of that now.

Republicans were not always Nazis. The article tries to look at how the change happened

Nope.

We are going to have to prosecute a lot of soldiers when this is over

More that congress operates on a go-along-to-get-along basis by default, and it takes some serious popular rage to change that

Yeah, the magic thing I want to have is a financially viable approach to center-left local journalism, which can do a lot to build community. I don’t have a way to do that though.

You either organize and help fight it, or you end up in it.

They respond to public pressure. We didn’t have that at the necessary scale at the beginning

It took a lot of public pressure, but Democrats are actually trying to block additional funding for this now. Only problem is thar ICE already has a huge multi-year slush fund

Florida wasn’t nearly so right-wing until fairly recently. It doesn’t have to stay that way if people are able to come together

They’re tightly tied to the administration. This is basically insider trading

Pretty much every dictatorship and absolute monarchy does this.

Do that enough times, and rewild the fields growing corn and soy to feed the cattle, and the river will have more water in it.

Nuclear weapons mean nobody is going to invade the US. Its on Americans to save themselves

Got credible sourcing on that?

We’ve already had folks try lighting them on fire, but that’s tough with modern construction. Nowhere near as easy as when the OSS simple sabotage field manual was written

He went for a much younger niece

The big question isn’t whether they’ll break the law: it’s whether they’ve alienated the local police enough that they’ll do something besides look the other way.

Probably makes the guards lives easier if the kids are distracted