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Which fascists poked their heads out the hidey hole? [1]

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Date: 2022-08-16

Everyone is understandably distressed over the news of Trump storing sensitive documents at his Florida home, documents so sensitive that they might threaten the security of the United States. Personally, I comprehend the situation but I find I am not investing emotional energy into it; perhaps that is a defense mechanism to keep from being floored and horrified.

Rather than focus on Trump’s obvious treachery and what the implications of such loose security are, I’ve been drawn more toward the reaction of some on the right. It’s been an amazing spectacle. The vehemence from the start was thick and relentless. Strident voices from the beginning were defiantly defending Donald Trump, even at a time when we knew next to nothing about the FBI search, including why the FBI was there and what they were looking for. Trump’s sycophants went to work right away, materials and motives be damned.

Not all right-wing personalities went this route. Only a notable wing of the extremists went on this knee-jerk defense, using nearly every word they could to protect their strongman idol, words so incendiary that they may have spurred a young man to attack the Cincinnati FBI field office. The rhetoric of these Trump allies was so edgy, so marginal, that the young man was inspired. He transformed into someone ready for homicide.

Who were these first fascists? Who were the ones who came out, warbling to high heaven about how unfair the FBI’s actions were to Donald Trump (before the nuclear news came out and changed the tenor of the conversation)? Who were the ones who jumped in feet first?

Can you help me assemble a list? Because what I find so important about this moment, about this reveal, is that none of these people needed to go out on that ledge. All they had to do was sit back with the rest of us and allow the process to unfold. That they went to the very edge of rhetoric in order to save their messiah right away, without any foundation for their defense, indicates that these folks pulled back their own curtain. They pointed to themselves and said, “I’m the fascist!” So let’s identify them.

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