Friday, October 25, 2024

Before this battle's won

The past week we’ve seen a lot more information come out about the Kleptocrat’s love of fascism. One of the primary sources is a piece in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg that lays out TFG’s fascination with all things Hitler—particularly his generals. (The guy who dodged military service refused to believe that eventually—when they started losing that war—those generals tried three times to kill the tyrant. In his Weltanshauung there were all these Prussians in really spiffy uniforms carrying out whatever crackbrained idea Hitler came up with. Go figure.)

Republicans up and down the line are scrambling to show solidarity as they edge away from the revelations. But, honestly—this is not really news. Even if the Kleptocrat’s former Chief of Staff, former Secretary of Defense (both Marine Corps generals) and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Army general) are finally talking about it, if you didn’t already know this, you should not be operating heavy equipment.

Anyway, I thought we should have something appropriate for the anti-fascism fight that we have on our hands as we round the corner to 5 November. So here’s Woody Guthrie, singing “All You Fascists (Gonna Lose). Guthrie famously put stickers on his guitars proclaiming “This machine kills fascists.”

It’s not great music, but it gets the job done. Which is what we have to do now.


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