Referencing the white nationalist tendencies of Steve Bannon is now the equivalent of calling him hitler?
It signifies a sort of intellectual low tide. All kinds of smelly, unpleasant things are being exposed.
Two victim-based mindsets are clashing, summoning up ideological monsters from the vasty deep. Which is worse? The travel ban guys, keeping us safe from Somali cancer patients? Or the Berkeley Berserkers and Middlebury Marcusians roughing people up in the service of tolerance and understanding?
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; and his justice cannot sleep forever."
There is such a thing as a legitimate victim, you know. Like the millions who will be without health insurance under this administration. I don't identify as a victim, and I doubt the rest of the millions who are working to resist this scourge do, either. So many fronts, so little time.
Ironically, the first Aryans were Iranian. Our White Nationalists use different descriptors now, perhaps thinking that muddies the waters.
I'm not inclined to tiptoe around an issue. Trump and his henchmen are not Nazis, but they are clearly cut from the same ideological cloth.
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