2. Good summary of alleged shooter's worldview. He belonged to the far right faction that sees Trump as "controlled opposition" (or a false flag president, if you will) -- i.e. Trump claims to stand for white America but actually works for "the Jews"https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1056231535685394435 …
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13. Since the French Revolution, we've repeatedly witnesses popular uprisings of subaltern classes: workers, colonized, women, racial minorities, LGBT etc. This poses a conceptual problem for right-wing nationalists, who posit organic cohesion as norm.
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14. For the right-wing nationalist, popular uprisings (unless of nationalist intent) are unnatural. But how to explain the discontent of workers, colonized, women, etc? Acknowledging legitimate grievances would mean having to accept social change.
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15. Unable (because of commitment to social status quo) to acknowledge grievances of subaltern classes, the right-wing nationalist needs a scapegoat who can be blamed for discord. For historical reasons, easiest handy one is myth of conniving conspiratorial Jew.
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16. The Soros of right-wing mythology (globalist intent on destroy cohesive nations) fit the long history of blaming internal discord on outside agitators as well as the Dolchstoßlegende. The nationalist needs a cosmopolitan nemesis.
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This is interesting also as a framework for understanding leftwing anti-semitism.
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How? That's not how I understand that phrase at all!
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