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Inspired by various posts I've seen on Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit:
If the Democrats really wanted to carry out a "denazification" of the American electorate, in what ways should they go about doing it?
Edit: to clarify, I'm seeing a lot of people on the left respond to the election with things to the effect of "the Democrat party doesn't have a policy problem, the voters have a racism/sexism/Fascism problem." The party doesn't need to change anything about their policies or their candidates, or even their messaging, they need to fix our horrible electorate, and that it contains so many hateful bigots who would knowingly vote for a Fascist like Trump, over an ideal candidate like Kamala Harris. (See some here and here.) Thus, they call for a "denazification" of America.
Now, if I were to reply to these people with something like "And just how do you propose to do that?", I'd generally be dismissed. But if, in something like a parallel to Cunningham's Law, I instead ask "Do you think [Plan A] would be a good method of denazification? Or would [Plan B] be better?," it's much more likely to generate replies, and discussion, and thus likely more thought about what such a "denazification" would actually entail, how they probably can't actually do it, and maybe even get them to move on from the hysterics (I know, wishful thinking).
In Putin's mind, 'denazificaton' really just means the eradication of Ukrainian national identity. I'm not sure it translates within a nation-state, especially now that the American right has become a multiracial working class coalition (at least for now).
Except this isn't about Putin's use of the term, this is how Democrats correct the problem of too many sexist, racist, hateful fascists voting against their objectively correct policies, in favor of the obvious fascist Trump (because those voters want fascism, because they're hate-driven Nazis incapable of being reasoned with.) That Harris and the Democrats lost only because "there aren’t people worth “winning over,” there’s just a country overwhelmingly clogged with trash to eliminate." And further, "They chose to be fash like the supporters of every other fash machine in history. Name a single time that problem was solved by kindly talking them out of it please. At minimum they have to be driven to leave."
So how might left-wing Americans go about unclogging America by eliminating the Trump-supporting fascist trash? How do you drive them to leave… or more?
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