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Sir, there's been four new Nazi/Hitler/antisemitic issues in the conservative community in just the past day
Following the recent Politico expose on the Young Republicans groupchat leak among mid 20s-30s leaders of the organization containing comments about gas chambering their political opponents and antisemitic remarks like this
In the followup to this, yes you heard it right, at least four new antisemitic and/or Nazi controversies in the past day or so.
A flag with a swatiska embedded in it was spotted in the office of Representative Dave Taylor. Rep. Taylor has called it out and condemned it, and it's quite possible he never noticed it before himself but it does seem to be another sign of the embedded antisemitic and pro nazi rhetoric in lower level staffers if one of them put it up.
Additionally, the Border Patrol posted a video on an Instagram containing an antisemitic slur. While the higher ups of the border patrol likely don't have much to do with what gets posted on the social media, it's again another bad sign that the lower levels who coordinate posts and approve them are antisemitic. Someone had to specifically pick that particular verse of that particular version of that particular song, they knew what they were posting and whatever approval process they use, the others would have heard the lyrics and yet signed on.
The third controversy is the most explicit of them all. Myron Gaines, host of the Fresh and Fit podcast (1.58 million subscribers on YouTube alone) posted
Now, I never would have imagine that the word woke includes "thinking the Holocaust is real and Hitler is bad", but that seems to be where we are at now. Gaines is also a former employee of the DHS, which is just another point of evidence of low level gop aligned staffers having pro Nazi/antisemitic views.
But in fact, all of this seems to be par for the course, according to Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab. who also wades into the ring of antisemitic Holocaust denialism with comments like
That's right, at least two major conservative names have directly engaged in unashamed pro Nazi/Holocaust denialism/etc rhetoric in response to the group chat leak and both of them strongly believe that many other high level conservatives agree with them (Myron's use of "We like Hitler and Torba saying it's normal).
As Richard Hanania (Writer of "The Origins of Woke" who has been in many conservative spaces before) explained months before the leak, this is actually pretty common. As he's said before, the two types of comments he tends to get "it can't be that bad" and "lol that's exactly what it's like" such as this agreement from National Review reporter James Lynch
What's interesting is that the one thing both the Nazi denouncers (Hanania/Lynch/etc) and Nazi defenders (Myron/Torba/etc) here both seem to agree on, is that this is common among the young right. There seems to be a broad consensus that this gropyer antisemitic Nazism is growing among conservatives, especially young ones. We've seen this with Kanye and his descent into Nazism, we've seen this with John Reid and Mike Robinson both exposed over their Nazi fetish. We've seen this with Tucker Carlson and Daryl Cooper. The rapid growth of figures like Nick "six million cookies" Fuentes, Ian Carroll and Theo Von. In fact a neo Nazi inspired kid was even behind a recent school shooting in Colorado a few months ago
EW Erickson says https://x.com/EWErickson/status/1978812093773041964
Ben Shapiro says that unity with radicals will destroy the right wing as it pushes moderate Americans away.
Right wing conservative libertarian speaker Phil Magness says
So with all this recent controversy, how big of a Nazi problem is actually festering, and why do the Nazis seem to feel so comfortable in modern conservativism? They even seem to be dropping hints at the highest levels if the border patrol video was intended as a dog whistle to be dropped before deleting. Is this growing widespread agreement (from Hanania to Torba) that this is just the tip of the iceberg among young conservatives accurate? Will this growing trend of Nazi radicalism destroy the Republicans chances among moderates in the future like embracing left wing radicalism hurt Biden? And how do the non Nazi conservatives and moderates balance fighting off Nazi accusations from the left also working to stem this apparant rise of unashamed nazism and Holocaust denialism?
Not only is this begging the question, your whole post is a Gish gallop. There have already been plenty of posts pointing out that the Young Republicans chat is not pro-Nazi. Someone already has pointed out that Myron Gaines is a pro-Palestinian Muslim--yeah, he doesn't like Jews, big surprise. Maybe he even identifies with Nazis. That reflects on the Democrats, who support the Palestinians and who Muslims are allied with, not on "conservatism". And the swastika flag, being nonobvious, was probably planted there to discredit Taylor. You clearly have not bothered checking any of your items for accuracy before posting them.
If you have a list of 20 reasons why creationism is true and the first item is about how the sun couldn't be millions of years old (written before nuclear fusion was discovered) it's not worth looking at the rest of the list.
Even if we don't count it as "Nazi" despite the constant jokes, they were making a bunch of antisemitic remarks.
But he's also a conservative who has associated with other conservatives like Nick Fuentes and Sneako. He's worn Trump sweaters and said "It's Trump 2024 or this country is going down the toilet" and "Everybody's got to go out there and fucking vote for Trump, especially if you live in Florida. Bro, he is the last stand we got, man".
Possible! Taylor at least called it out, so let's hope they didn't notice and some staffer just happened to use the US flag with a secret swatiska instead of the tons of normal flags they would have access to.
So voting for Trump makes one a Nazi? Well, thanks for the clarification of your viewpoint.
No, it makes one a conservative, which is what @magicalkittycat was addressing - ie Gaines's fault (should he be judged to be a Nazi on his individual merits) should be blamed on the Republicans and not the Dems.
So now we've moved from "they're Nazis, Harold" to "they're conservatives (which is the same thing)".
Why am I getting subtle hints of motte and bailey here?
He's both a nazi and a conservative.
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Not even close. Please reread the comment thread. Here is how it went: first, Myron Gaines, in particular, was argued by the OP to be a Nazi due to his personal demonstrated antisemitism. Then, someone claimed that, due to his support for Palestine, Gaines's antisemitism should really be ascribed to a trend among Democrats, not to a trend among conservatives. It was in counter to this that we got onto the topic of proving Gaines is indeed a conservative. The point is not "Gaines is a conservative, therefore he's basically a Nazi". Everyone in the comment thread agreed that Gaines is a Nazi-sympathizing antisemite: the debate was between "Gaines is Nazi-ish and this reflects badly on conservatives because he is one" vs , or "Gaines is Nazi-ish but this says nothing whatsoever about conservatives because Gaines, as pro-Palestine Muslim whose antisemitism is downstream of that background, could as easily be argued to be D- as R-aligned".
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