After Charlottesville Fascism should get an expanded definition to include all the tactics of the Alt-Right. Them folks like to use modern methods like the internet...to spread their hate...and to praise Trumpy and Pencey.
Are the Proud Boys Fascists? This band of millenial male misfits in MAGA hats rallying behind Gavin McInnes and the slogan "western chauvism" has been hooking up with Republicans lately and engaging in the sorts of bully boy tactics familiar to students of the rise of Fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany. Republicans Are Adopting the Proud Boys Proud Boys Street Gang Had A Weekend Of Coast-To-Coast Violence Before that, they were among the groups who showed up in Charlottesville for the tiki torch parade by white supremacists. Proud Boys ought to be ashamed | Opinion Twitter Gives Proud Boys the Boot Ahead of Charlottesville Anniversary Rally Twitter suspends Proud Boys on eve of deadly Unite the Right rally anniversary They purport to be AltLite instead of AltLite, but are veiled white supremacists--meaning they are trying to make right wing authoritarianism mainstream. Proud Boys: Who they are, and why experts who study hate and extremism find them interesting – Daily News https://rewire.news/article/2017/08/28/hate-goes-mainstream-gavin-mcinnes-proud-boys/ Founder McInnes told the Republicans you need violent, disgusting scum foot soldiers like us. Proud Boys Founder To NYC Republicans Club: You Need "Rude Violent Disgusting Scum Foot Soldiers Like Us" - Joe.My.God. Add a personalistic megalomaniac authoritarian leader (like the Donald) and what do you have? If it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist, maybe not a liberal democrat. What disstinguishes them from Antifa who some on the right call fascist? (1) Antifa isn't chauvinistic; (2) Antifa isn't hieracrchical; and (3) Antifa isn't organized around a charismatic leader. Why oh why haven't Republicans distanced themselves from these pathetic losers?
