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Republicans lean into racism, fascism, and glorification of sedition in weekend Nevada rally [1]

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Date: 2022-10-09

x All the quiet parts now with bullhorns https://t.co/2OANm6JFY1 — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 9, 2022

A bit of climate denial was thrown in as well, part of the party's now-widespread anger at science and intellectualism in all its forms:

x Tuberville: God changes the climate pic.twitter.com/N0uJt7Mi6D — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

From Jim Marchant, the party's Big Lie-endorsing and sedition-backing secretary of state candidate in Nevada, we got a definition of what taking our country back means, to Republicans. It means controlling the mechanisms of our elections.

x Marchant: If get all our Secretaries of State elected around the country like this, we take our country back pic.twitter.com/w7hFyD4Kkq — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

But what are the secretaries of state supposed to do, once the offices are in Republican control? Apparently their role will consist not only of monitoring elections, but facilitating criminal acts from the party?

x Kash Patel says they have to elect Laxalt to defeat the “lies” about “Ukraine impeachment one, Ukraine impeachment two” and January 6th with the truth pic.twitter.com/bXx2F23P0L — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

Criminal acts such as preparing and delivering forged documents purporting to be legitimate presidential electors based on groups of individual Republicans simply declaring themselves to be so:

x McDonald: They can point at us and call us fake electors.. No, we stood up for the rights of Nevadans pic.twitter.com/H7alDwZRQQ — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

Glorifying the reign of Dear Leader, mainly by fictionalizing it, was on the agenda:

x Fox News made them stupid. Fox and Trump got them to stop trusting facts. Then Trump showed the power of repeating lies. https://t.co/W1MZZJPX52 — Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) October 9, 2022

After the crowd had been pummeled by delusionists for long enough, it was time for the traitor whose lies led to deaths in the Capitol to bellow his own versions. Donald Trump, a traitor, wants you to remember the good times of unabated pandemic death.

x Trump: Think of it, two years ago everything was so good in our country pic.twitter.com/h8kERbKFsA — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

A proper fascist leader might have dug up the corpse of pandemic casualty Ben Carson and rigged it to applaud when Trump spoke that line, but we can't have everything. Trump left office a seditionist, a crooked traitor who betrayed the country in a dozen slovenly ways, but that was only after incompetently handling a national crisis to the tune of half a million deaths. But this was a crowd of Republicans willing to support such a traitor; while many of them likely had family members who died in large part because this buffoon refused to support even masking, much less other protections, those family members are long forgotten. What is important is that the shit-skulled traitor be properly cheered.

We moved on to, of course, demands that those who were not seditionist traitors be locked up.

x We’ve reached the first lock her up chant pic.twitter.com/LbqlWjeCky — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

While glorifying Trump's own acts to overthrow the government.

x Trump: You know the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen? January 6th pic.twitter.com/2rG8xZZeIR — Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022

A bit of fever dream was added in, as the traitor's mind wandered to his more current problems:

x "George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant."



-- Trump pic.twitter.com/T7sF52ilt2 — Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 9, 2022

But Trump took time out of his own fascist delusions to promote a foreign dictatorship. The Republican Party has fetished murderous Russian kleptocrat Vladimir Putin, even as Putin faces the world exposed as a fraud, a thug whose reign has so decimated his country that his own military has collapsed from the corruption. Ukraine is currently routing Russian armies, threatening to take back Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia for nearly a decade.

Trump, who consistently sought to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty at every turn during his time in office for reasons we can still only speculate on, took a moment to promote new Russian demands that Ukrainians halt their destruction of the army that sought to occupy them.

x Putin wants an immediate negotiation because he is losing and wants to stop the Ukrainian offensive before they take back more of the land Russia has illegally seized. Interesting that Trump again advocates the Putin position. And of course says nothing critical about Putin. https://t.co/EQvVqC5OdU — Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) October 9, 2022

Republicanism is hardening into a fascist movement steadily, and with no significant pushback. In just one event we see assertion of white supremacy, a barrage of false propaganda meant to glorify the movement and deny its failures, the now-omnipresent contempt for book-learning in all its forms, the glorification of violence to assert party dominance, assertions that the nation can be saved only if the party itself administers its elections, and the seeds of likely future violence. The party became a fascist party when it backed the January 6 coup attempt, both on the day itself and for these two long years afterwards as it both obstructed all attempts to investigate Trump's actions during the coup and glorified, to their base, the alleged patriotism of the seditionists themselves.

We are now at the point where the movement believes even state national security secrets do not belong to the state, but belong to Donald Trump personally, by the rules of finders keepers. It is fascist, fascist, fascist. Look at the crowd, in those images. They are proud to be white supremacists, to rally around hoaxes, and to back the attempted overthrow of their own government. They are having so much fun, as they cheer for it all and hold up their pre-made signs.

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