DIGBY: The only thing American about them are their birth certificates
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But you know what makes me sick, as “Earl Pitts, American” might say? “You know what makes me so angry I might well get my foot caught in a leg trap and then chew my leg off?” It’s how these insurrectionist uber patriots feel so gol-dang entitled to having America their Burger King way. They stand ready to go to guns … or fists or spears or nooses and mobs … if the rest of the country refuses to bow down to their tantrums and penile displays the way they bow down to their orange autocrat.
They reject the democratic process. They reject the Constitution and the rule of law. They reject “taking it like a man,” in their own macho framing, when they don’t get their way. But if lefties get their backs up, we are the threat to the democratic republic that they have no use for if they cannot rule it.
“This kind of party, authoritarian discipline, where you follow the leader or you deserve to die, that’s not democracy. That has nothing to do with democracy,” says Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
It’s ironic. The movement really took off after the election of Barack Obama, and after Donald Trump questioned his Americanness via his birth certificate.
https://digbysblog.net/2022/06/18/as-phony-as-trump/