This Was the Week American Fascism Reached a Tipping Point

[Nevilledog]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/rnc-white-house-trump-gop-fascism-kenosha-murder.html

In the final week of August, the United States saw its biggest deterioration in societal norms and steps towards outright fascism since President Donald Trump came to office four years ago under a mantle of barely veiled authoritarianism. The troubling developments of the past week are almost too many to count.

On Tuesday, 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly crossed state lines with his automatic rifle and murdered two demonstrators at a protest of another horrific police shooting of a Black man. Local police did not arrest Rittenhouse or other armed white men—who went to Kenosha following the “call to arms” of a group calling itself the Kenosha Guard—for violating curfew, or even as suspects in the immediate aftermath of a murder. Instead, officers supplied them with water, thanked them for coming, and allowed Rittenhouse to walk away after allegedly murdering two men and seriously wounding a third. Kenosha’s chief of police responded by blaming the victims for having violated curfew while nearly exonerating Rittenhouse by describing the murder in the passive voice.

Meanwhile, the day prior, Ammon Bundy and dozens of other armed white and unmasked protesters pushed their way past police in Boise to pack the gallery overlooking Idaho’s House of Representatives. The gallery had been restricted for social distancing, but after the confrontation, which resulted in the shattering of a glass door, protesters were allowed to fill every seat.

It was also the week of the Republican National Convention, which culminated with a grand and illegal presidential acceptance speech with the backdrop of the taxpayer-funded White House decked out in Trump-Pence 2020 propaganda. The sight of the White House being used directly as a political prop in such a way has never happened in American history and is more reminiscent of the actions of certain European leaders of the 1930s who turned themselves into embodiments of the state.

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[llashram]

1. Our EC and electoral system

allowed these clowns the mantle of power in 2016 along with some rogue EC voters, I feel. Our vote is going to have to be overwhelming this time so IF this PINO and his militia brownshirts want to cause disturbances claiming the vote is rigged, there will have to be an RW-GOP attempt at coup d'etat for them to stay in power.

Tipping point? Yep and an extremely dangerous point in this country's short history of an experiment in democracy.

I choose democracy and will fight any way needed to maintain our progress.

[KS Toronado]

5. We know the PINO and the GOP will be yelling rigged election on Nov 4th

I pray that he doesn't call on his followers to take up arms against all Democrats that day.

[Yeehah]

2. Armed right wing freikorps attack protesters and storm government buildings, encouraged by police

How fucked is the USA right now?

[yaesu]

3. the fascists in this country, which sadly I would put at around 45% of the population give or take

, are really pushing the limits and have gone too far over the top. This usually has a whiplash effect with politics, sentiment adjusting far to the left to compensate which I hope it does.

[Woodycall]

4. Death Eaters

"They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty."

[dchill]

8. President Voldemort.

[crickets]

6. K&R for visibility.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. No one even cares.

We’re so down the rabbit hole this isn’t even causing much outrage. This was a huge insult to our Democracy.

[moondust]

9. Europe, too.

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Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital (Berlin), including a large contingent of far-right groups and members identifying with the US-based right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon. And in London, a large crowd of protesters took to the streets, calling for the end of what they called "COVID hoax" measures.
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Berlin police halt march protesting against German government's coronavirus response

Big sign at link reads "Mr. Trump, please don't forget the german patriots! WWG1WGA"

Ugh.

[hadEnuf]

10. Fascists with guns think twice about shooting equally armed people.

Just sayin'....

[Illumination]

11. Black, white or otherwise, Americans cannot feel safe in Trump's America he's created...

[catbyte]

12. ...

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We're all lucky he's so lazy and incompetent. It would be 10 x worse if he wasn't.

[Permanut]

15. An image for the ages, catbyte. n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

13. GOP goes along with it, not for Drumpf...

...but for the next Grandee. And that one can be expected to have a more “normal” brain.

[Johnny teh Dem]

14. Beschloss: Trump's RNC Speech At The White House 'Made Me Sick'

Actually, this one time, Trump actually does have something in common with Lincoln: Thursday night, just like in the photo of Honest Abe, there were sheep on the White House lawn.

[BadGimp]

16. Not a Tipping Point imo, just a new High Water Mark

It will get worse, much worse in fact and very quickly...

Things are not even heating up yet...