The recent debate around the ‘Groypers’ and antisemitism creeping into the movement has led to lots of Weimar references. And I’m as guilty of that as anyone else. But there’s a big problem with the Weimar rhetoric.
America isn’t Germany.
Germany was a generally conservative country with a similar ethnic population (apart from Jews and Slavs, both of whom the Nazis targeted) and a violent radical left as well as a less violent moderate left. The Nazis had a backdoor arrangement with the Soviet Communists under which both sides stirred up violence in order to delegitimize any moderate alternative and then convinced enough conservatives to let them take over.
Both the Groypers and their allies in the movement, and their opponents, think this is what’s happening here.
They’re missing one big part of the picture. The Left isn’t an insurgency, it’s been the establishment in control of most institutions and levels of government. .
Conservatives aren’t the weak-willed establishment they’re depicted as, but the insurgency trying to maneuver for the most part from outside the system against a system just waiting to crack down on us.
What would happen if the Groypers and their allies got their wish and a bunch of trolls who do Nazis salutes for the cameras became the movement?
We got a little taste of it with Russiagate, Arctic Frost and J6 against a guy whose only offense was being a bit brash. One riot around Congress and the Democrats had militarized D.C. and turned it into a Green Zone for a month.
And much of the public went along with it.
Now imagine the permission structure they would have if the GOP had actual Nazis in it talking about killing off minorities.
We’d have one ‘incident’ followed by a ban on the opposition and 10 years of martial law. And the trolls responsible for it would spend the rest of the time giggling about it on social media while America ceased to exist. Fuentes, Tucker and their ilk aren’t ‘Nazis’, they’re trolls and talking heads who pretend to be things they’re not in front of the camera. They’re not leaders of a movement, they’re playing a game that will fall apart the moment words meet hard cold reality.
Tucker and Fuentes giggled on their podcast about how they thought the other was a ‘Fed’. Which if any of them are ‘Feds’ matters less than that they’re playing into the hands of the Left which is angling for a chance to criminalize the political opposition. J6 gave them a chance to test out what the public would accept and the public, which gets much of its reality from the Left, turned out to be okay with troops in the streets of D.C. and nationwide FBI manhunts.
(And if you think law enforcement and the military won’t go along, you weren’t paying attention in 2020.)
America isn’t Weimar Germany. It’s not in a state of social chaos, it’s being taken over by a revolutionary Left which has been working from inside the system to make this happen for the last 50 years. And they’re waiting for the idiots, creeps and trolls playing Nazis on social media to give them the chance to shut down what President Trump has unleashed.
All they need is a reason that they think the public will go along with it. Playing into their hands will end America.
