[Alberta's Child]

I'm going to bookmark this thread because I suspect the article and the comments underneath it will be remembered as one of the definitive description of the MAGA era in U.S. politics.

The author makes some mystifying statements that I simply don't think are accurate, but he has a way with words that is epic.

The crowd was not a Tea Party crowd. They brought their folding chairs and their canes. They drove more than they flew. They spat their dip on the ground. They peed on the trees. And they didn’t just disrespect the cops guarding the Capitol, they crushed past them.

[Zhang Fei]

[The author makes some mystifying statements that I simply don’t think are accurate, but he has a way with words that is epic. ]

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He’s being mealy-mouthed because writing think-pieces is how he makes a living and being too overt could cost him his career. His basic point appears to be - what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Increasingly, the right, at a grassroots level, is starting to cotton on that the Democrats are using Antifa and BLM as their cat’s paw to get things they want implemented into law. Violence works - the key is mobilizing your people to punish the politicians and businesses who get in your way and try to stigmatize the right’s partisans.

Imagine if Mike Lee and Mitt Romney had to run a gauntlet of right-wing protestors every time he left his home in the morning. If Facebook suddenly lost half its American advertisers and/or users, what would its stock do? What would happen to Zuckerberg’s CEO spot if he failed to moderate his policies re right-wing users?