{"id":7724,"date":"2023-03-16T05:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2023-03-16T05:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:51:54","slug":"left-wing-salon-republicans-waging-fascist-war-against-democracy-freedom-under-guise-of-culture-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=7724","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Salon: Republicans Waging \u2018Fascist War\u2019 Against Democracy, Freedom Under Guise of \u2018Culture Wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Tuesday essay<\/a>, titled \u201cThis is no culture war: Republicans are waging a war on democracy,\u201d was penned by Salon <\/em>politics staff writer Chauncey DeVega, who charges that today\u2019s Republican Party and larger \u201cconservative\u201d movement are \u201cwaging a fascist war against multiracial pluralist democracy and human freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeVega begins by arguing that the inability to comprehend how the \u201cso-called culture war is actually a fascist war against American democracy is to almost ensure being rolled over by those evil forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claiming the \u201croots of this fascist and authoritarian campaign\u201d go back to America\u2019s \u201cnative forms of fascism,\u201d exhibited by \u201cJim and Jane Crow, white-on-black chattel slavery, genocide against First Nations peoples and white settler colonialism,\u201d the author charges that \u201cneofascism and the Age of Trump are properly understood as being but the most current manifestation of much older birth defects in American democracy and society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then cites Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley who \u201chighlights how the Republican fascist thought crime laws in Florida and other parts of the country targeting the teaching of African-American history (and the country\u2019s real history more generally) are examples of a much larger Orwellian project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to DeVega, the American mainstream media and political class have misunderstood the true nature of the \u201cculture war\u201d because they still possess a \u201cnormalcy\u201d bias:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, he clarifies, \u201cthe idea that America is experiencing a culture war instead of a fascist war on democracy and freedom fits neatly into a narrative framework of momentary troubles that will soon pass and not an existential crisis that will fundamentally change the order of things in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing the political class and mainstream news media as \u201cself-limiting,\u201d DeVega reasons that any admission that \u201cthe Republican Party and \u2018conservative\u2019 movement are neofascists who reject multiracial democracy would involve a type of paradigm shift that the news media and political class would a priori reject.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCareerists and others who are successful in those spheres of influence know what the rules are and adhere to them closely lest they be punished or perhaps even exiled,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeVega accuses the mainstream news media and political class of a \u201cfailure of imagination\u201d as well as being possessed by \u201cintellectual laziness\u201d in the face of an \u201cepistemic crisis\u201d ascendant from \u201cneofascism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy comparison, and like other more sophisticated thinkers on the left, the Republican fascists and other members of the global right correctly understand that culture, emotions, material concerns and \u2018serious politics\u2019 are all part of a larger struggle to win and keep political power across society,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile too many Democrats and mainstream liberals and progressives (and others committed to the liberal democratic project in America) tend to silo off questions of politics and culture, the neofascists are engaged in a revolutionary project that does not make that error in thinking,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author insists that in the context of \u201cthe culture wars,\u201d Republican \u201cfascists and their forces\u201d are waging war against \u201cBlack and brown people, women, the LGBTQ community, and other disadvantaged and marginalized groups,\u201d leading to people\u2019s lives \u201cliterally being imperiled, be it from direct violence such as hate crimes or taking away civil and human rights and bodily autonomy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeVega, taking aim at the terminology he believes distorts public perception, asserts that the American mainstream news media and political class \u201ccannot understand the true nature and scope of the country\u2019s democracy crisis because \u2018culture war\u2019 is language that limits their capacity to fully understand political reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He concludes by calling for a \u201crecalibration\u201d and \u201crethinking\u201d of the approach to \u201cconceptualizing, theorizing, communicating, and responding to the country\u2019s democracy crisis and its deep origins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Salon <\/em>writer has a history of expressing radical anti-white and anti-Republican rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, DeVega claimed<\/a> \u201cwhite America,\u201d which is \u201ctoo comfortable\u201d with the suffering of black people, needs to be \u201cpurged\u201d of its \u201callegiance to white supremacy,\u201d as he accused the GOP of being a \u201cde facto terrorist organization\u201d as well as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest white supremacist\u201d group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, he said<\/a> Democrats don\u2019t want unity with the GOP \u201cfascists,\u201d as he accused Republicans of seeking to create a society in which black people \u201chave no rights the white man is bound to respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senior politics writer also claimed<\/a> the GOP has morphed from an \u201cevil insect\u201d into a full-blown \u201cterrorist organization,\u201d while accusing Republicans and Trump supporters of seeking a war against American democracy, encouraging widescale violence against the left and minorities, and using \u201cstochastic terrorism\u201d to achieve their aims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, a shockingly anti-white and anti-Christian Salon <\/em>piece by DeVega referred<\/a> to \u201cthe Republican fascist movement\u201d as \u201cobjectively evil,\u201d hoping that \u201cpeople of color\u201d die out in the battle against \u201cmultiracial democracy,\u201d while accusing \u201cwhite Christians\u201d of embracing lies, terrorism, white supremacy, and fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another essay penned by DeVega, the left-wing writer accused<\/a> Republicans of resembling \u201cgood Germans\u201d of the Nazi era \u2014 wishing to believe they are decent people while hiding behind \u201cfictions of plausible deniability for the evils committed by their leader,\u201d as he described today\u2019s conservatism as seeking \u201cfriendly fascism\u201d masked in an appeal to return to \u201ctraditional values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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