The new alt-right on Fox
by digby
I had a long conversation with a friend yesterday about the future of the Republican Party. While we both agreed that the core of the party is aging out quickly and they have lost all semblance of a coherent political ideology, I was left a little bit unsettled at the idea that they were just going to fade away. Maybe. Or maybe they’ll reform themselves into something legitimate and respectable again. It’s hard to imagine that right now with their blind loyalty to the monster in the White House.
But then I came home and saw this and realized that it’s probably a mistake to think there aren’t young right wingers ready to take the reins:
Tucker’s guest Pete D’Abrosca in going full gr*yper. This is Tucker Carlson directly laundering white nationalist propaganda and talking points to mainstream audiences. pic.twitter.com/JDgvLt3Dr1— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) December 7, 2019
Tucker guest Pete D’Abrosca was on a Proud Boys list of those who”never faltered and who’s knees never bend.” He was also a guest on InfoWars to discuss conspiracy theories about AOC. pic.twitter.com/SBIMhCWPBs— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) December 7, 2019
White nationalists Patrick Casey and Faith Goldy are already celebrating the segment. Patrick Casey is the. leader of the “American Identity Movement” a white supremacist group that had to rebrand after it’s affiliation with the Unite The Right rally. pic.twitter.com/HVoepWrEiv— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) December 7, 2019
D’Abrosca is also an avid proponent of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. He goes so far to say that those who betray their country by “importing replacements…deserve worse than being cursed at.” pic.twitter.com/NcvRdlp86K— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) December 7, 2019
The Gr*yper movement seeks to push conservative politics even farther to the right than the current moment, it’s being coordinated by white supremacists Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey. The fact that this man was on the most-viewed network in the country should horrify everyone. pic.twitter.com/qAivdmulTA— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) December 7, 2019
The piece in the Washington Post, linked above, looks at this movement. These are the people who are protesting Republicans like Donald Trump Jr and Dan Crenshaw.
I don’t know how many of them there are. They seem like typical young bullies who find expression in politics. They exist on all sides of the spectrum and they are always around in some form or another. But the fact that the White Nationalist Tucker Carlson is eagerly inviting them on to his show and laundering their toxic terroristic ideology to his audience is not a good sign. I guess we have to hope that the elderly Fox News viewers can’t really hear what they are saying — and the young ones are too busy wanking in their online cells.
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