The Fight Against Fascists (I Can't Believe This Exists)

[Dill]

(06-08-2021, 10:34 PM)samhain Wrote: I'm not really joking here.  I think many MAGA types would be fine with killing people who politically disagree with them if they thought they could do it without life-wrecking legal consequences, and especially if Trump or his eventual political heir could frame it as a state-sponsored act.  I guarantee they'd do it if the people being executed were strangers.  I reckon a lot wouldn't have much issue giving up family and friends, either.  

Well, we have had several breaches of state capitols, including by armed rioters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/01/oregon-state-capitol-republican-charged
https://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-rally-shelter-place-order-spills-capitol-building/story?id=70432928

And a plot to capture, try, and execute the gov. of Michigan.
https://apnews.com/article/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-indictments-coronavirus-pandemic-traverse-city-10f7e02c57004da9843f89650edd4510

We can add that to the U.S. Capitol breach, which included people carrying zip ties and chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" 

I think it is safe to say SOME "MAGA types" would kill political opponents, though would probably try them as traitors first. 

We want to be careful as to how far we generalize this. Remember that Trump defenders are looking for all manner of hyperbole and misattribution to create equivalence between party behavior, to normalize anti-democratic behavior and political violence on their side. (E.g., comparing the Capitol insurrection to some of the rioting following George Floyd protests--as if Joe Biden urged the rioters on and the Dem party demoted any official who called him to account.) 

Hannity is on every night telling his audience that Dems are using the statistically small number of Capitol protestors (whom he alternately calls "patriots" and "criminals") to tar ALL Trump supporters. If we confirm Hannity, we are only inducing his audience to further tune out the very legitimate criticisms of Trump's anti-democratic behavior and his base's tolerance, if not outright support, for that behavior.