This QAnon-flavored soundtrack to Trump, GOP's fascist right turn should terrify you Will Bunch

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by Will Bunch

If you are a political fanatic, you’ve surely heard the old saying that when fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. That’s been proven true in this fraught year of 2022 as Christian nationalism rises to our extreme right, but no one predicted this:

That U.S. authoritarianism would also come with a bat-guano crazy musical soundtrack — music that sounds like a Bible Belt altar riff, but is actually tied to the weirdly popular QAnon conspiracy theory whose legion of followers believe there’s an elite global cabal of child-trafficking, baby-blood-drinking liberal politicians and movie stars.

This terrifying crossing of some kind of autocratic Rubicon happened — where else? — at a Donald Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night.

Trump rallies are a tricky thing to cover, some 20 months after the 45th president left the White House in seeming disgrace after a failed coup and two impeachments. There’s an understandable desire to want to not give these increasingly hate-drenched rallies any oxygen, in the vain hope the flame will completely flicker out. And his Fidel Castro-length rants increasingly offer little political insight but long flights of narcissistic grievance about his 2020 election loss and an enemies list that grows longer each day.

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1. Excellent editorial, he really sums it all up. I have never seen such a disturbing rally in my

66 years on earth.

Thank you for posting it.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I know that some say we must follow these thugs to see what nefarious garbage they're up to,

but I already know that they're not up to anything good, never were, and never will be. Thus, I choose not to listen to these thugs, other than the occasional mockery which they deserve. And if there was anything additional that is really out of the ballpark, the Media would jump on board and howl.

The rule of law still stands, sometimes it's slower than we like, but it's still there and these motormouths can mouth off all they want, but in the end, it's not going to do them any good. The crowds are disappearing every time djt speaks, not just because he's bringing up the same old tired and thoroughly disproven election fraud that he keeps proclaiming, but that he's a moron, basically repeating the same old nonsense again and again and again and again.

His rallies are becoming fewer and fewer, as the crowds get thinner and thinner, and the money coming into his coffers slows down to a trickle.

He's doing this for the money mainly. Because he doesn't have to work so hard for it other than open his fat mouth, which we all know already, he does this pretty good (have you seen him eat a hamburger? It's not pretty.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. GZP

From Will Bunch:

Some might like to pretend that this is strictly a “Donald Trump problem,” a would-be felon desperate to save his own skin. But the reality is that this fascistic virus has infected most of the Republican Party, on the eve of a midterm election where the American Experiment itself is up for grabs. The FPOTUS was in Ohio, after all, to endorse and rally support for the GOP’s grateful Senate hopeful, J.D. Vance. That candidate — who rose to prominence with a Hillbilly Elegy promising hope that he could lead others down a path away from Appalachian dysfunction as he’d done on his own Ivy League odyssey — has instead embraced Trump and his ugliest instincts.