JF

The fascist threat was always a fetish. A spectre. It allowed the liberals to obfuscate the true antagnism, which was always a class antagonism. Woke discourse policing served the same function— the marginalisation and destruction of the left in a moment of real possibility.

If they were actual nazis, nobody in their right mind says "they were right about x". No, this is just handing out concession prizes after robbing us of an opportunity to develop a truly populist left. And nazis had nothing to do with it, that spectre was pure ideology, kayfabe.

normies knew this stuff was garbage too, they just didn't care Extremely Online people knew it too, but the social cost of arguing against it was too high 4chan pepe guys didn't mind the social cost, so they made it 'their thing'