#the far right

[tomorrowusa]

Don't think that patiently explaining the legalities and details of the Trump indictment will change the minds of the MAGA crowd about it. Those folks, like Trump, simply don't believe in the rule of law.

There may be some Republicans who secretly believe the charges have merit but are scared shitless of what may happen if they say so in public.

A reasonably healthy party might give its indicted leader some benefit of the doubt, while calling for judgment to be withheld before he has his day in court. But Republicans correctly understand that their party will consider Trump an innocent martyr regardless. The sickness of the Republican Party as it is presently constituted is that there is no conceivable set of facts that would permit it to acknowledge Trump’s guilt. What has brought the party to this point is the convergence of its decades-long descent into paranoia with its idiosyncratic embrace of a career criminal.

Yep, the GOP has been drifting in this direction for a long time. Trump's emergence finally nudged them into being a full-blown paranoid cult.

The Republican Party’s internal culture has been shaped by what Richard Hofstadter famously described as “the paranoid style” in American politics. Hofstadter specifically attributed this description to the conservative movement, which, at the time, was a marginalized faction on the far right but has since completely taken control of the party and imposed its warped mentality on half of America. To its adherents, every incremental expansion of the welfare state is incipient communism, each new expansion of social liberalism the final death blow to family and church. Lurking behind these endless defeats, they discern a vast plot by shadowy elites. In recent years, the Republican Party’s long rightward march on policy has ground to a halt, and it has instead radicalized on a different dimension: ruthlessness. Attributing their political travails to weakness, Republicans converged on the belief that their only chance to pull back from the precipice of final defeat is to discard their scruples. A willingness to do or say anything to win was the essence of Trump’s appeal, an amorality some Republicans embraced gleefully and others reluctantly. Trump, by dint of his obsessive consumption of right-wing media, grasped where the party was going more quickly than its leaders did. This aspect of Trump’s rise was historically necessary. All Trump did was to hasten it along.

This is Trump's legal philosophy (if you want to call it that) in a nutshell...

Trump was not raised in a traditional conservative milieu. He came into a seedy, corrupt world in which politicians could be bought off and laws were suggestions. He worked with mobsters and absorbed their view of law enforcement: People who follow the law are suckers, and the worst thing in the world is a rat.

Trump is basically a petty mobster. That explains why he hates the FBI.

It is the interplay of the two forces, the paranoia of the right and the seamy criminality of the right’s current champion, that has brought the party to this point. Trump’s endlessly repeated “witch hunt” meme blends together the mobster’s hatred of the FBI with the conservative’s fear of the bureaucrat. His loyalists have been trained to either deny any evidence of misconduct by their side or rationalize it as a necessary countermeasure against their enemies. The concept of “crime” has been redefined in the conservative mind to mean activities by Democrats. They insist upon Trump’s innocence because they believe a Republican, axiomatically, cannot be a criminal.

That Manichean view fits in well with the radical Christian fundamentalist tendency in the GOP. Though instead of Jesus Christ, the credo of Republicans is to accept Donald Trump as their personal Lord and Savior. By that reasoning, Donald Trump is incapable of wrongdoing.

[avalovesindie]

I am by no means an expert but it seems to me “your body does not belong to you” is a major theme of right wing authoritarianism and, interestingly, modern USAmerican thinking. This underpins so much from abortion to forcing kids to hug their relatives. Your body belongs to the state, or God, or your husband, or your boss, or your doctor. Everything from trans and gay liberation to forcing autistic people to look in your eyes to making cashiers stand for no reason. Your body does not belong to you, but taking care of your body is your responsibility and your responsibility alone, and if you fail in some way, you deserve the consequences.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Just want to remind everyone how successful this weekend was in terms of fighting the far right and fascism across the UK.

Saturday, the far right attempted protests in Manchester, London, Wakefield and South Wales. Everywhere they went there were poor turnouts and they were vastly outnumbered by counter protestors. In many cases, they had to give up and go home, they were so outnumbered.

On Sunday, there were demonstrations outside hotels in Erskine and Newquay and an anti-trans group in London. Again, the far right were opposed by determined locals and antifascists, and ultimately sent home.

Everywhere they go, they're outnumbered, because they're not the silent majority, their support is not committed or deep, and they aren't actually organised.

Locals don't want them in their communities.

You might find lots of them in the comments section of local newspapers, but when it comes to actually getting people onto the streets, they can't do it. And we can. This weekend has actually given me a hope I've been missing for a long time.

Siammo Tutti Antifascisti.

[antifainternational]

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

Disclaimer: Been getting certain assholes reblogging this so as a reminder, if you by any ways think banning books with LGBTQ themes and deals with both gay also trans characters / written by queer authors from schools and libraries is okay or dare call them " Pedo books" and compare homosexuality to pedophilia. Please Fuck Off my blog & take your homophobic bigoted rhetoric to hell because you sure aren't welcome here.

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[nerdykeith]

So not only do the anti-LGBTQ far right think that a book can turn you gay or trans, now they are targeting unisex names such as Sam. Apparently these names are turning kids trans. Once again creating problems that are a fabrication of their mind. The name Sam has been a popular name for over a century. Interesting that it took 100 years for these rightists to get all upset over it.

You couldn't even parody this nonsense if you tried. The amount of rubbish the far right come up with is unbelievable.

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Superman needs to pay a visit to Mar-a-Lago.

Ron DeSantis and the scandal-plagued Moms for Liberty would probably denounce that 1950s DC Comics Superman cartoon as "woke".

Liberal to moderate Americans should not be squeamish about using the term un-American. For too long the enemies of democracy and human rights in the United States have used it to demonize their political opponents.

We should be the ones to define what it means to be American. Fairness, equality, charity, civility, and opposition to tyrannical dictators are traits which a majority of Americans would agree on.

The MAGA Republican Party has supported voter suppression, bigotry, race-baiting, income inequality, and overseas dictators committing genocide. They are unquestionably un-American and even anti-American. Pointing this out is a no-brainer.

We can't keep the country on the right track without using the right language. As the Trump cult continues to move further from mainstream values we should be robust about pointing out how un-American they've become.

[lookninjas]

Apparently Morrissey’s running around claiming he’s not at all far right not at all! (he just votes far right and supports far right parties), so here’s a brief primer of all the bullshit he’s spewed across his career.

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

[emily84]

Just very quickly in European news: this ^^ despicable man was just electeed Senate Speaker in the Italian Parliament, following the victory of the far-right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) in the last elections.

Liliana Segre, Jewish holocaust survivor and Senator for life, presided over the inauguration of this new XIX legislature and made a powerful and moving  speech, mentioning the antisemitic and xenophobic racial laws proclaimed by Mussolini and reminding everyone that October 28th will be the hundredth anniversary of the March on Rome, the coup d’état that sanctioned the Nationalist Fascist Party’s rise to Power.