Every time I hear the term “normal republican” vs “the crazies” it’s hard for me not to laugh because it is the effort and/or complicity of “normal republicans” who vote against their own interests or inflict harm on their voters in service to maintaining white supremacy and its power
It’s “normal republicans” who for years birthed and nursed the ideology that is now the doctrine of “the crazies”
This who these folx have always been
@KimCrayton1 At this point, a "normal Republican" means a trump voter, right? (That's why he's leading the primary pack by something like 35-40 points, right?)
So a "normal" Republican now means someone who will vote for a racist, raping, fascist traitor who tried to steal the election (GA, false electors), tried to overturn it (Pence certification), and when those didn't work, tried to *violently overthrow the US*.
That ain't "normal" by any sane standards.
@KimCrayton1 Yeah, it's kinda like when they talked about "the normal Germans."
Reading a book on fascism right now and it documents fully how so much of the "normal Germans" went along with the Nazi's as long as what they did benefited rather than bothered them personally.
What's normal for #Republicans at this point is fomenting #Fascism or voting for people who do.
What's important to stress is: what we've all been taught to call Fascism is what happens when #capitalism starts treating white folks the way it's treated #Black & #BIPOC folks The Entire Time
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Something that I've heard conservatives say in recent years, the Republican party isn't actually moving to the right, it's everyone else that's "moving to the Left".
The republicans who seem sane right now? They were always the moderates, they haven't changed their views, they just seem less extreme because they are standing next to the people who've always been hardcore fascists, and are now just mask off about it.
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...because this is what they've always been about, this is what they've always wanted. They weren't squeamish that civil rights was moving too fast, they never wanted civil rights to begin with, so now that we're gaining all this ground on things like gay marriage, they are scrambling to push back as hard as they can before the Overton window shifts any further...
...but they're going to fail, because you can't undo mere-exposure to minorities and our struggles.
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