Miguel beat me to posting the insane Tweet by Wajahat Ali, but he had a different take on it than I did, so I’m going to give you my thoughts as well.
Let’s take this Tweet apart.
You can’t heal or reform the GOP who are now an extremist party.
The Republicans are now irredeemably bad, reform is impossible. Why? Because we are extremists?
Objectively, by what standards? Republicans are not out committing terrorist acts, killing people, or blowing things up in the name of Conservatism.
Even politically, within the legislature, what extremism is there?
The Democrats were the ones who impeached a sitting president for a fictitious crime using entirely fabricated evidence, in a show trial that looked like Kafka fan fiction.
If he is talking about the cult of personality around Trump. Even Trump supporters at their most enthusiastic barely touch the level of sycophantic enthusiasm for Obama. There were no serious hagiographic images of Trump like there were of Obama. There were no school kids taught to sing Trump hymns in school like there were of Obama.
Trump never ran on a platform of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
I would say that calling the Republican party extremists is projection, but really this is creating a false narrative to justify what comes next.
They have to be broken, burned down and rebuilt.
I believe the part about broken and burned, I doubt he means the rebuilt part. If he does, he means it the way Winston was rebuilt at the end of 1984, as totally subjected to the Democrats.
When Biden is in power treat them like the active threats to democracy they are.
We are a threat to democracy. How? We are making arguments that encourage people to vote for our side. That is the essence of democracy. We are not the ones engaging in ballot harvesting or other means of electoral fuckery.
Again, I would say that this is projection, but really this is creating a false narrative to justify what comes next.
If those who committed crimes aren’t punished then they will be more emboldened.
And there we have it.
Collective punishment.
The narrative has been established that we are unrelenting extremists who are a danger to civil society so we must be punished. All of us. Forever eliminated less we rise up to threaten them again.
This was what Stalin said about the Kulaks. Hitler said similar things about the Jews. Mao targeted Chinese who did not follow him with the accusation that they were a threat to society.
Group after group who were identified and scapegoated as the problem were exterminated by tyrants.
Ali isn’t alone in this. Every Leftist who is saying that Republicans are some sort of extremist or aberration to police society are creating a narrative to justify the total subjugation of Republicans no different from the Kulaks, Jews, Tutsi, etc., for the good of the people.
I have seen this rhetoric before in both Russian and German. It is no less dangerous in English.
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