The right and the Republican Party is a white identity political party, fused with conspiracy theories, making it resemble a fascist party by the day.
Usually Donald Trump would be considered the face of this movement, and he is, but Trump is not the only one in our political system right now. Another person who embodies the Republican Parties decent into white nationalism is Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
Almost a year ago, Matt Gaetz went on InfoWar, where he told Alex Jones that a there was a classified House Intelligence Committee memo that showed a "deep state" trying to undermine President Trump. Matt Gaetz did not explain why, nor did Alex Jones ask, why the "deep state" allowed Trump to get in the White House if they were just going to spend his presidential time going after him?
What Gaetz told Jones reported by ThinkProgress:
Gaetz expressed confidence that a classified House Intelligence Committee memo, produced by Republican staff, about the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign will ultimately be released — and said that once it is, Democrats and the mainstream media are “going to be like cornered rats.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “is built on a rotten foundation, and I suspect they’ll have to go into major defense mode over Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation,” Gaetz said.
Gaetz also embodies the right's phobia that the left is out to do to them what they want to do to their political opponents, for Gaetz is part of the group of politicians known as the Freedom Caucus, which is an Orwellian name in practice.
"Losing a political campaign should not function as a de facto immunity deal," Gaetz told the DailyBeast about Hillary Clinton. "I mean if people committed crimes we got to know what those were and see if there's any lasting consequence from them."
Like say, purposely looking to get information from a foreign government who had stolen emails from your political opponent?
"Gaetz is a prime example of the hybrid of conspiracy theorist-legislator," wrote Matt Laslo of the DailyBeast.
It's easy for one to come to this conclusion when one considers that for Trump's State of the Union, Gaetz invited Holocaust denier Chuck C Johnson to attend.
In a reddit Ask Me Anything, a questioner asked him his thoughts on World War II, the Holocaust, and the neo-Nazi's "Jewish Quesion."
Johnson's answer:
I do not and never have believed the six million figure. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic. I think the Allied bombing of Germany was a ware crime. I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real. I read the German War (highly recommend), Bloodlands, Mein Kampf, and all of David Irving. I’m more or less of the view that the war was an outgrowth of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world. I also believe that the fears of German extermination were not misplaced, especially in light of the Ukrainian famine. But I support Israel as a Jewish state and Zionism as a concept. I’m pro-ethno state, generally. I understand why and how Hitler rose to power but think too much of our focus on World War II is spent trying to understand Hitler and not enough is spent trying to understand Weimar. Mecius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, is right. America is a communist country.
Gaetz told the DailyBeast, "Well, we live in very strange times." As the DailyBeast noted on his comment, he said it "without a hint of self-awareness."
That's why he's able to tweet out stuff like this:
Soros? Meaning, George Soros, also an anti-semeditic boogeyman. Gaetz should probably stay away from considering his connections to Holocaust deniers.
Here's some retweets you'll find when you tweet something like what Gaetz had:
Conspiracy theories, going after political opponents because you don't like them, and white nationalism. I'm sure Matt Gaetz isn't actually a fascist. He only has the qualities that would make him as such.
And if you think the left is going at Trump the same way, sorry, but Trump is doing it for us:
That's illegal...
We do certainly live in strange times... More like fucked up times...
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