I’m speaking to antifascists now who were content with extending solidarity to legalitarians. Have you changed your tone? If you haven’t, when will you recognize you’re a fool? I made that mistake early on as an anarchist. The eager, as long as you oppose fascism, that makes you an antifascist.
That was perhaps one of my most radical naivetes and something I’ve never gotten over, one of the more cringeworthy elements of my development as a militant.
Fortunately, unlike many, I grew out of that. The Biden administration ensured it, I witnessed the deluge of liberals who happily returned to brunch as the horrors continued, and many of whom identified as antifascists, then I knew how little that word meant. If our antifascism didn’t recognize Democrats and its base as essential to the fascist project, then what was this antifascism about? It certainly didn’t seek to destroy fascism as those eager self-declared antifascists did everything they could to safeguard the very vehicle necessary for fascism to thrive.
I mean, shit, when Kamala ran for president, Richard Spencer eagerly argued on her behalf. He said the only problem with her wasn’t her politics, but that she wasn’t a white man, and that her approach was a safe way of ensuring the fascism he wanted to see in the world. Trump’s method of operating endangered the fascism Richard Spencer wanted and swore it’d lead to an “idiocracy”.
Here I now sit, angrily writing this, because I came across an anonymous Democrat lawmaker saying “rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy.. the thing where his numbers are tanking, we’re going to take the bait for one hairdresser.”
To spell that out for you, the Dem doesn’t care about sending a random person to a hell prison in El Salvador, but about where the poll numbers are. That’s all they ever were. If you don’t think this Dem deserves the Mussolini treatment (I mean it in the most brutal sense of the concept), I don’t know what to tell you. That is as vile as any actually declared fascist and re-emphasizes that Dems are Blue MAGA, a continuation of the fascist project.
The fact your antifascism tolerated people like these, thought that there was some semblance of unity, and that this person is an alternative to Trump? This person isn’t. This person deserves the exact same violence, scorn, and militancy that any Proud Boy deserves on the streets. This lawmaker isn’t a one off either, somehow the Palestinian genocide did not once make many of you pause to go “antifascism means antiliberalism” because liberals are in a symbiotic relationship with fascists, insofar as they don’t realize its a parasite until they’re fucking dead. They have zero qualms about weaponizing fascists, then have the audacity to be shocked when Blackwater is being utilized against them like some poorly written drama where anyone with an ounce of reason saw the foreshadowing in episode one.
Are you a fool, just like them, for tolerating them? What is your antifascism if it doesn’t kill the root? What is your antifascism if it safeguards the very state that breeds it? Piss off with your American Iron Front bullshit, you can’t spell fascism without patriot, and you certainly can’t spell fascism without state.