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COMMENT: A Texas Tea Party leader has spilled the beans, explicitly articulating the classical fascism of the Tea Party.
With the exception of the name, there is nothing new about these folks.
EXCERPT: A tea party leader in Texas is defending his promotion of the American Fascist Party as something he thought was “pro-Constitution, pro-America.”
James Ives, who was listed as the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party in 2011, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Monday that he had made a promotional video for the American Fascist Party and advocated tea party principles on a Fascist Party message board.
In the video, a man who looks like Ives sits in front of a Fascist Party logo wearing a uniform with yellow shoulder patches. Another photo shows a uniformed man sitting in front of a fascist cross. The blog that inspired Norwegian mass shooter Anders Behring Breivik describes fascist solar crosses as “symbolic representations buried deep in the regions of the brain where the primal responses to stimuli are rage, awe, and fear.” . . .
. . . “From my point of view, it was all pro-Constitution, pro-America,” Ives explained to the Tribune. “I never did anything… There really weren’t enough people involved to be a gathering, let alone a rally. It was basically a scattering of people across the continent just complaining.”
The tea party leader claimed that he his participation in the Fascist Party was part of an effort to write a novel about what he thought was a cabal. But instead of writing that novel, Ives wrote on the message board about how building the Fascist Party in America was “our spirit, our calling.”
“It will be our greatest challenge, and our sweetest victory, to finally surpass this dark menace, this numbing threat from the shadows, and replace it with the pure sunbeam that is our Fascist Faith, our Fascist Truth,” Ives wrote.
It’s always interesting to see the Tea Party forced to choose between two things it loves. Scary, but interesting. For instance, which one takes the top priority prize: Funding a vast national security behemoth or showing the world how much they hate undocumented immigrants. Take a guess...
“Right now I’m leaning to ... standing my ground that what I’ve been saying for the last three months hasn’t been political bullshit. ... The bottom line is you’ve got to be able to explain yourself to your constituents that you are not a total hypocrite.” That appears to be the general sentiment amongst the 52 GOP that voted against the GOP-led bill. So now the employees of the Department of Homeland Security are going to go without pay so they extra-crazy members of the GOP can show they aren’t hypocrites. Aha.
Keep in mind that there’s a last minute push to get a one-week extension on DHS funding so a shutdown might be avoided. But if it doesn’t pass by midnight tonight...
a one week extension on DHS funding after it couldn’t get the three week extension passed earlier in the night. And presumably, in a week, we’ll be right back here although House Speaker John Boenher is claiming that no promises were made about the new vote a week from now so we don’t really know what’s going to happen in the next week. We just know that it will probably be more GOP insanity. Whether or not it’s the regularly scheduled GOP insanity or some new surprise remains to be seen:
You have to love Ted Cruz’s lament:
Yes, why didn’t the GOP shut the ENTIRE government down instead? Nothing insane about that!