Posted on 10/21/2025 6:01:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If Austin’s farm fiasco teaches us anything, it’s that the left’s words aren’t harmless — they’re harbingers of dehumanization and violence.
In my Oct. 2 article for The Federalist, I detailed a chilling 2,500 percent spike in indexed internet content pairing “Trump” with “fascist” over the past 10 years, with the biggest surge happening since mid-2024. This spike in dangerous rhetoric is evidence of a left-wing effort to dehumanize conservatives as existential threats.
From Hillary Clinton likening Trump’s rallies to Nazi gatherings to Kamala Harris branding him a “fascist” threat to democracy, the language has poisoned discourse and, as we’ve seen, inspired real-world harm — including assassination attempts on Trump and the recent murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk by a radical immersed in anti-Trump echo chambers.
This toxic playbook has now played out in microcosm in Austin, Texas, where a Reddit mob’s incendiary pressure campaign against a local farm not only forced an event cancellation for a conservative group, but allegedly escalated to death threats against the owners and their employees.
It’s a stark reminder: Words like “fascist” aren’t just insults; they’re weapons.
The saga began on Oct. 15, 2025, when a Reddit user in the r/Austin subreddit posted a thread titled “Yikes. Boggy Creek Farms is hosting Texas Public Policy Foundation.” The post lambasted the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), my employer, as a “fascist” front for Christian nationalism, Project 2025, and billionaire oil interests, urging users to shame the farm into canceling a family-friendly event on regenerative agriculture and “Make America Healthy Again” for the TPPF-affiliated Liberty Leadership Council, a 40-and-under professional organization.
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Leftists are just pure unadulterated evil, make no mistake whatsoever about that.
By the time I got to the third paragraph, Reddit, was already in the back of my mind as the source for this. It is probably one of the most toxic and emotionally fueled hatred filled platforms on the Internet today.
A Dragunov or AK would be more fitting.
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Leftists are just pure unadulterated evil, make no mistake whatsoever about that.
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If America was still a CIVILIZED country, one phone call to the Governor’s office describing the threat would have immediately triggered a response by the nearest State Police with orders to arrest ANYYONE threatening to interfere with the right of any group to peaceably assemble for political proceedings.
True.
Immediately “Progressives” point out the J6 that threatened Jeffries. Difference between us and them, the J6 knew his action was not welcomed ( “ Even if I am hated”) the “progressives” would make his their hero if he took out MAGA.
And, it will remain this way as long as we allow the leftists to control and define the terms of the argument/conversation.
It has been so for the last 75 years and more.
Leftists believe a Think Tank is a weapon on wheels they fear everything they can’t understand.
I live in DC and the leftists are correct. That's why they fund and employ so many of these NGOs. It's a way to get high powered intellectual cover for what you want to do unrestrained by morality, wisdom, common sense or the genuine public good.
Yes they are a hopeless lot
We haven't even seen a Comey or Bolton mugshot.
At this rate 100% of the evil kingpins will still be in power when Trump retires.
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