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.
You can't heal or reform the GOP who are now an extremist party. They have to be broken, burned down and rebuilt. When Biden is in power treat them like the active threats to democracy they are. If those who committed crimes aren't punished then they will be more emboldened.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) November 10, 2020
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.
If harris is president there will be purges.
Also i suspect if harris / biden loose they will form a governmeng in exile somewhere to undermine a 2nd Trump presidency.
Do they want to make Conservative Americans into extremists and terrorists? Because this is how you start the process.
They already believe that anyways. Remember: your speech is violence, their violence is speech.
So you are an extremist and a terrorist by their lights now.
Which is why this is not going to end well.
It’s what I say when people want to punish a group of people because they are “evil”:
No fascist woke up in the morning and said: “Who can I be evil to today?” They all thought they were the good guys.
Fuk em. Let them try. Word will spread. They MIGHT get a few. When word gets around these idiots will find out they are out numbered minimum 3-1. They start this We the People will finish it. Trumpy gets back goin afain his doj need to prosecute ALL that make threats
People like this Wajahat fellow are treading into very dangerous waters. It’s not lost on 10’s of millions of Americans that there was massive fraud in this election against Trump. If this fraud stands, if the Democrats and the MSM continue to ridicule anyone who exposes it as liars, then those 10’s of millions are going to realize that their votes don’t matter, elections don’t matter, and the country is effectively finished. Continuing to attack these millions in the face of such hopelessness is playing with fire next to a powder keg.
Just a gentle correction…
I assume that you mean “Winston Smith in the book “1984”, right?
The Kulaks in Russia and the Jews in Germany had a similar disadvantage that I keep pointing out the U.S. citizenry doesn’t
We are armed out the ass. All that is needed is the will to use them when indicated.
Yes, but… in both cases, the first step was registration and confiscation. Once the deplorables were disarmed, the rest could follow.
It’s important not to submit to registration. If you’re foolish enough to do so, do not submit to confiscation. If you do, it’s too late.