Steve Scalise is a racist, homophobic, anti-choice, shithead that gives speeches to crowds of white nationalists and called himself “David Duke without the baggage.” Please stop normalizing the murderous, bigoted agenda of the Republican party and pretending these right wing lawmakers just have a benign difference of political opinion.
The guy almost died, and you’re just going to insult him? What’s wrong with you?
Look, you nazi sympathizing, hentai loving piece of shit: Not a single shred of courtesy or sympathy is owed to an avowed racist that gives speeches at white nationalist events. None. Zero.
The only regrettable thing about this incident is that the shooter missed.
The original Nazis, the actual ones, not these washed-up, low status fringe guys that no one likes, came to power because of an environment of substantial political violence in which people were willing to make large, very large, tradeoffs to restore the perception of security.
Socialists and Communists literally fought them in the streets and it failed. It made the problem worse. It took empires to defeat Nazism.
You lot have this idea that if White Nationalism is not constantly suppressed, it will naturally grow and take over, but this perception is mistaken. Under normal post-war circumstances, white nationalism doesn’t have much to offer the typical white person. After all, Hitler made them all look both stupid and evil, and his thousand-year empire imploded in only a fraction of a century. White Nationalism has been mocked and made low-status for some time.
Now, normally, WNs don’t have much to offer the typical white male…
Unless you crank up the political violence such that WN ideas about erasure of whites and fundamentally incompatibility between races start to sound more reasonable to marginal people most vulnerable to WN conversion. Mass immigration doesn’t help, nor does not believing in borders or countries, since you can’t credibly offer them a home they’d live in for a lifetime, but it might be overcome by someone clever enough.
You think you’re fighting White Nationalism with your righteous indignation, but you’re actually creating it. You’re getting high on outrage while increasing the actual level of risk.