Audience doesn’t* Pardon me.
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Things are changing. The MAGApedes & normie con types aren’t rushing in & making sure to hit that like button to signal that “hate & bigotry have no place in our party” blah blah blah. They aren’t doing that anymore. The likes imply a shrug at best. At worst tacit support.
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Made this point last night & wanna stress it again: not gonna over play this. I don’t think the lack of likes means we all white supremists now. But from the replies as well: they don’t see this being as menacing as the radical left. And don’t wanna waste energy fighting it.
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And it is a rational choice obv. From the center right perspective, the right flank is their protection. Avant-garde. The left has always had theirs. One of the greatest tricks the left ever played was setting things up so the right must disavow their right flank but left doesn’t
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Left doesn’t have to. The left always has their battering ram at hand. And can activate it. Hide behind it when things get to hot for the squeamish center left. The right is getting their ram back. And why not? The far right is no threat to the center right. Why attack them?
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*too hot It worked by convincing the center right that the two were not equal: the far right was dangerous or immoral in a way the far left wasn’t, so the far right can’t be on the field but the far left can. A mug’s game. The side w/o a flank loses. That dynamic is changing now
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The far right being given implicit permission to re-enter the political game is evening things up. More than evening it up: the left (both center & far) have gotten soft off too many easy victories for many decades. Far right has been in the wildernesses, toughening up.
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Even the center right has toughened up. In a way they’re softer, made cowardly, like a battered wife. But in another way they’re mad as hell & not gonna take it anymore. We see that in the lack of signaling. They aren’t doing that bit these days. Finding their footing. Good.
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The thing about both centers is they are softer (ideologically, politically). We don’t need them to be based. They’re the linemen in football, the pawns in chess. They don’t make the plays but they have to at least hold their position. Center right weren’t doing that. But are now
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Indeed. I only saw three replies: “what about antifa?” from the MAGApedes, “what are you doing throwing your own ppl under the bus you idiot” from our guys, and “you, Blormpf, and the white supremists all look the same to me” from shitlib hecklers.
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