One of the hardest parts of politics is explaining to people how fascists think because it's so stupid and disconnected from reality people have trouble believing it.

And since the fascists are mostly white, they receive endless benefit of the doubt and the belief that some evil pied piper like Trump must have misled them somehow.

"They're not bad people."

They're bad people.

@gwynnion

They were always bad people.

They used to be quietly bad.

Now they are bad out loud full throated

@gwynnion one of the advantages for the fascists is that normal people refuse to believe how evil they are, even when they brag about it.

@gwynnion yeah. It's getting hard to discount "they're bad people" in all this.

Misled, lied to.... Only goes so far and frankly is a poor defence

@gwynnion Not only are they bad people, they're banking on white people's assumption they're not bad people. Best case, y'all getting played like fiddles by people who think you're just stupid enough to be their pawns without knowing it.
@gwynnion Seems like fascism can be summarized as "willingly choosing to be human garbage as a political statement because literally just that dumb."
@gwynnion
bad?
rather worse than the devil himself.
Compared to fascists, the devil is an angel.
@gwynnion it’s not misleading when the fascist band plays racist tunes with hate filled lyrics and everyone sings along, they resonate with the hate.