• FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS LEFT GOOD IN THE COUNTRY DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY HINTS OF THE P-WORD! Last thing we need now is all these gun toting red hats going around killing people

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      One of the foundational inspirations for modern white supremacists/right wingers is the book the Turner Diaries in which there is a day, the ‘Day of the Rope’, where the right wing has an outpouring of massacres against leftists, afterwards cementing their hold on the US as a fascist ethno-state. Several anti-government/racist terror attacks have explicitly had the goal of starting this.

      The Trump administration is doing everything they can do inspire this, or to inspire a mass antifascist uprising so they can imprison their opposition. I believe they would fail at crushing a wide-spread insurgency though because most people don’t actually like Nazis, and average people are getting tired of this shit.