RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.
The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.
The weapon: Antisemitism.
The room: Phoenix Convention Center.
Having offered up their not-inconsiderable reputations and intellectual firepower,
these once-respected thinkers realized too late that they were never steering the ship.
The goal was always a personalist regime that wrecked the economy for the benefit of a few oligarchs.
#Antisemitism is at the center of the Republican project.
From decrying “globalists” and #George #Soros, to embracing the “real” Jews in Israel,
the GOP is inextricably entwined with #Christian #nationalism.
In polite company, the party manages to keep this antisemitism as subtext.
They openly attack other minorities, particularly trans people and Muslims;
But Jew-hatred is expressed as rage at “#elites” or ancient blood libel repackaged for the modern era, such as Pizzagate and Qanon.
“Trolling the libs” necessitates saying the unsayable.
And Trump, who won by embracing the most online people on earth,
is constantly playing footsie with the fringe figures who endorse him.
That’s how he wound up hosting #Kanye #West and #Nick #Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022,
both avowed antisemites and #Holocaust #deniers.
But bringing trolls inside the tent means the GOP can’t plausibly deny that they’re central to the project.
Republicans can’t very well maintain a veneer of separation from bomb throwers like #Alex #Jones, #Candace #Owens, and #Laura #Loomer
when they’re being boosted by the president himself.
And so the “normie” Gippers steadfastly assure themselves that they are the real GOP — the signal, not the noise.
Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!Liz Dye (Public Notice)
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Fascism and anti-Jewish bigotry have been integrally linked since the 1930s.
Over the past several years, Trump has so successfully remade the GOP as a fascist political party that a leading “mainstream” Republican governor greeted the recent news that Trump is a secret admirer of Adolf Hitler as a non-event, offhandedly declaring on CNN that it’s “baked in” to his appeal.
While Trump has declared himself to be the “protector” of the Jewish community at a time of rising antisemitism,
he’s also spent the last eight years regularizing antisemitic conspiracism within the GOP and welcoming Jew haters and other bigots into the party.
Donald Trump is a committed bigot at heart, and his worldview is deeply rooted in racism and religious stereotyping.
His hatred and fear of non-European immigrants has been on open display since he announced his first presidential candidacy in 2015 in a “speech” laced with vitriolic rants about Latin American asylum seekers.
Trump’s lifelong derision of Black
... show moreFascism and anti-Jewish bigotry have been integrally linked since the 1930s.
Over the past several years, Trump has so successfully remade the GOP as a fascist political party that a leading “mainstream” Republican governor greeted the recent news that Trump is a secret admirer of Adolf Hitler as a non-event, offhandedly declaring on CNN that it’s “baked in” to his appeal.
While Trump has declared himself to be the “protector” of the Jewish community at a time of rising antisemitism,
he’s also spent the last eight years regularizing antisemitic conspiracism within the GOP and welcoming Jew haters and other bigots into the party.
Donald Trump is a committed bigot at heart, and his worldview is deeply rooted in racism and religious stereotyping.
His hatred and fear of non-European immigrants has been on open display since he announced his first presidential candidacy in 2015 in a “speech” laced with vitriolic rants about Latin American asylum seekers.
Trump’s lifelong derision of Black Americans is never far from the surface, and has been starkly displayed in his now habitual dismissal of Vice President Kamala Harris as “stupid” and “low IQ.”
Like many barstool bigots, Trump has also long exhibited a set of reflexive stereotypes regarding Jews,
who he claims to admire even as he repeatedly characterizes them as money-hungry connivers.
No wonder that Trump bonded on the subject of Jews with neo-fascist ideologue Steve Bannon, who managed the final stretch of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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Nochem ben Shlomo
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •SearingTruth
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •"One step at a time.
One atrocity at a time.
Evil nibbles at the toes, to dine upon the heart."
SearingTruth
WesDym
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •I get it, but pointing out that Taco may be anti-Semitic is like pointing out that Stalin may have had bad breath.
This man is a rolling dumpster fire of hate and dysfunction who has named MANY groups as his sworn mortal enemies. Jews are on the list somewhere, I'm sure, but not at the top, or probably even near. Remember, after all, that is best friend for many years was a Jewish paedophile. The architect of his brutal oppression of (mostly, so far) Hispanic immigrants is also Jewish.
WesDym
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Put another way, Taco hates a lot of people, probably including many (maybe most, though not all) Jews, but I don't get the feeling right now that he actually cares all that much.
For now, I should say. Because I feel like if he gets his way with a lot of his MORE hated targets, he'll get around to Jews eventually.
(((JaneinNJ)))
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to (((JaneinNJ))) • • •@JaneinNJ
The 6 dynasties funding the Heritage Foundation will likely fund both the original & the knockoff versions.
They quickly moved on from Charlie Kirk & funded both Erika Kirk and Nick Fuentes's ilk.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein are anti-democracy.
They're indifferent to who they support as long as the coalition of fossil fuel funded fascist billionaire oligarchy continues & spreads.
desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-…
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
Joe Fassler (DeSmog)