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The Proud Boys Are Waiting For Trump's Signal To Start A Civil War
This is how democracy dies.https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-proud-boys-are-waiting-for-trumps
This past weekend, The Proud Boys headed to Portland. The fascist group of white nationalist put out the call to their members all over the country to head to what is essentially Ground Zero for American civil unrest for yet another attempt to get their long-dreamed race war going. It did not go well. There were, in a positive sign of democracy, more people on line in Fairfax County, VA. for the first day of early voting (Hint: they weren’t there to vote for Trump). One gets the feeling the enthusiasm for conflict wasn’t quite there.
Link to tweet
Not So Much Fun When They Shoot Back
The right was super jazzed up about Kyle Rittenhouse murdering two people in Wisconsin so you’d think their Brownshirt marches would be growing. After weeks of escalation, in which various white nationalist terrorist groups began showing up with weapons (both lethal and otherwise) to confront protesters, Rittenhouse finally fulfilled the fantasy of every fascist and pulled the trigger. Trump humpers were ecstatic and crowed in delight that a mighty blow had been struck against the evil forces of Antifa or BLM or George Soros or pedophiles or whatever bad guy their conspiracy theory-addled brain conjured. Sure, Rittenhouse was arrested the next day but that night? The police might as well put a badge on him. The fascists knew they had an ally in law enforcement.
But then, just a few days later, one of their own was shot and killed in Portland. And the next day, someone allegedly opened fire on a Trump caravan antagonizing people in Los Angeles. No one was hurt and the car whose tires were blown out allegedly wasn’t part of the caravan but bullets only randomly fly around LA in the movies. The message was loud and clear: “You have guns? So do we.” It’s important to take note that for all their tattoos and body armor and guns and posturing, white nationalist terrorists are, at their core, utter cowards. Motivated by a deep and inescapable fear, they engage in cosplay as fearsome warriors and rove in mobs looking for small groups to attack. But it’s one thing to shoot unarmed protesters, it’s another to know you can get shot in return. Just because you dress like you’re in the military doesn’t mean you have the training or you’ve seen actual combat. Even though most of the terrorists masquerading as “patriots” are cowards doesn’t mean they can’t be motivated to violence on a massive scale.
Their Master’s Voice
It’s no secret that Trump expects to steal the election. Specifically, it’s no secret because Trump keeps telling us that’s what he plans to do. A large part of this plan hinges on the courts but a not so small part will rely on his army of red hats attacking, quite literally, the election. This is not a new tactic for Republicans. In November of 2000, while Florida was struggling with a messy recount, the Republican Party did not have a mob of useful idiots to do their dirty work. Instead, they flew dozens of Republican operatives to the Miami-Dade polling headquarters and had them launch a physical assault on the officials rechecking the ballots. The “Brooks Brothers Riot” stopped the recount long enough for the Republican-controlled Supreme Court to hand George W. Bush his presidency. But that was a single recount in a single location; a bottleneck that will not be reproduced again. The 2020 election will require a much larger effort spread across several states and that’s where groups like the Proud Boys come in.
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My patriotic duty.
I would say...go with girth.
Would actually look forward to the military debriefing videos of their Taliban-style trucks being blown away.
