Originally Posted by roachboy

i'm not being obtuse, dk---i mean exactly what i say---3-percenters et al are rebranded militias; it would stand to reason that part of the reason to rebrand would be to present the illusion of opening far right politics out into the mainstream, maybe in order to return the favor that the republican populist coalition did for the militia movement by opening itself onto the extreme right.

but no-one, except maybe you---and except maybe other folk like you----is fooled by this dk.

in a way this is no different from what limbaugh was doing in the 90s---advancing very conservative arguments as if they spoke not to conservatives but to "real americans"---it's all part of the circle jerk of conservative marketing, how the discourse works.

i can see why you'd want to act as though the rebranded militia movement is not a far right movement, not basically neo-fascist---but the rebranding does not and cannot creep outside the militia demographic. that's why you're "Restorative non-revolution carried out by neo-minutemen" is a pipe-dream. and if it isn't, that's why you people will end up going all khymer rouge in every city in america.

and that, dk, is why you're fantasy america is a political nightmare for the rest of us.