I don't think that will happen - he's smarter than that, and definitely no Nazi sympathiser. The only way to counter his influence is for another charismatic speaker to prove him wrong - to say correct things that will resonate as well with the same audience.
Yay. The quicker he spirals from misogynist trash into full-on nazi, the quicker he can be removed from power & influence.
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He's a typical conman/cult leader, nothing more. Isolate his base & press them to reveal their nazi sympathies and he'll shift his messaging to please them.
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No, I think you're too black-and-white here. I'm pretty sure his base isn't initially (necessarily) nazi-sympathetic; but listening to him, they start thinking social justice work is a scam, and are primed to be converted and THEN radicalized by the right. That's what they do.
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There aren't many Nazis. But there are a lot of (young, white, male) people who are easily convinced that the left is wrong *because the left doesn't care about being pleasant to them* and become easy prey to the right-wing propaganda machine.
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If, in the current world political climate, you're amenable to that narrative, you're at best indifferent to and ok with everything nazis stand for.
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Your argument made sense 5-10 years ago. Not now.
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And "there aren't a lot of nazis" is wishful thinking. Probably 15-25% of US population is aligned strongly with white supremacy (KKK, Confederate flags, ...). Open expression is all that was rare before Trump.
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Despite being
#bornintheusa and following it closely, I keep forgetting how insanely behind, in matters of humanity and spirit, your country is. And if there's one thing I'm grateful to my mother for, it's for leaving it when I was still a baby.
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