Charlie Sykes used to be a conservative Republican. Then Trump became President, and Sykes became a Never Trumper (maybe before the election, I’m not sure). Charlie and other Never Trumpers and their friends created a website called The Bulwark. It is consistently interesting. Charlie wrote the following post.
He wrote:
When Twitter banned neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes back in December 2021, the site’s Head of Safety and Integrity, Yoel Roth said, “Hateful conduct has no place here.”
But Roth is gone, Elon Musk is in charge, and the Nazis are back.
Fuentes, last seen here as Donald Trump’s dinner guest, was reinstated just hours after another actual Nazi, Andrew Anglin— who once described his approach as “Non-ironic Nazism masquerading as ironic Nazism” — asked Musk to bring his friend back on Twitter.
Anglin tweeted Musk that the Holocaust-denying, Jew-baiting Fuentes is “a very nice person and I can vouch that he’ll never say anything mean.”
Musk, apparently took him at his word, and Fuentes made his triumphant return, with his usual restraint, dignity, and class.
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Who is this new Musk-whisperer?
Back in 2017, The Atlantic profiled Anglin: “The Making of An American Nazi.”
Anglin is an ideological descendant of men such as George Lincoln Rockwell, who created the American Nazi Party in the late 1950s, and William Luther Pierce, who founded the National Alliance, a powerful white-nationalist group, in the 1970s. Anglin admires these predecessors, who saw themselves as revolutionaries at the vanguard of a movement to take back the country. He dreams of a violent insurrection.
But where Rockwell and Pierce relied on pamphlets, the radio, newsletters, and in-person organizing to advance their aims, Anglin has the internet. His reach is exponentially greater, his ability to connect with like-minded young men unprecedented.
Since then, Anglin has tried to rebrand himself as just a garden-variety American Nationalist, but this is mostly eye-wash for clueless billionaires. Notes the Anti-Defamation League:
In an effort to validate their leap from neo-Nazis to flag-waving American patriots, he and his followers equate American nationalism to white nationalism by claiming America was founded on anti-Semitic and racist principles.
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Anglin is also one of the most vicious trolls on the far-right. I wrote about him in my book, “How the Right Lost Its Mind,” describing the explosion of harassment aimed at Jewish critics of Donald Trump at the time.
Many of the worst instances of harassment were connected to a website known as the Daily Stormer and its founder, a neo-Nazi activist named Andrew Anglin.
I first became aware of the site when I received, via email, a photoshopped image of my picture inside a gas chamber. A smiling Donald Trump wearing a German military uniform is poised to press the red “gas” button. The photoshopping tool had been created by the website and was widely used to troll both Jewish and non-Jewish critics of the Trump campaign.
The site takes its name from the German Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer,which was notorious for the viciousness of its anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews. After World War II, Der Stürmer’s publisher, Julius Streicher, was executed for crimes against humanity.
Anglin created the site in 2013 as an updated version of his previous website, which he called Total Fascism. As of this writing, the new website features pictures of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump and the slogan “Daily Stormer— The World’s Most Goal-Oriented Republican Website.”
It is important to emphasize again that the Alt Right is a mansion with many rooms and some very real divisions. Anglin, for example, is not a fan of Milo Yiannopoulos, who is depicted on the Daily Stormer with a cartoon of the Jewish nose superimposed on his face and is referred to as “Filthy Rat Kike Milo.”
But Anglin is also interested in emphasizing the common ground among the various disparate groups and interests that make up the white nationalist movement. In his own guide to the Alt Right, Anglin notes that the movement included various factions, but that they had all been led “toward this center-point where we have all met. The campaign of Donald Trump is effectively the nexus of that centerpoint.”
Impressed by Trump’s rhetoric on illegal immigrants, Anglin endorsed Trump in 2015 and urged the readers of the Daily Stormer to “vote for the first time in our lives for the one man who actually represents our interests.”
After Trump called for barring Muslims from the country, the site declared: “Heil Donald Trump— The Ultimate Savior.” But Anglin’s greatest accomplishment was the creation of what he calls his “Troll Army,” which he uses to attack political opponents, deployed to great effect in early 2016.
After GQ magazine published a profile of Melania Trump by writer Julia Ioffe, the future First Lady took to Facebook to denounce the piece as “yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting.” Anglin quickly mobilized his Troll Army, posting an article headlined: “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!”
The post featured a picture of Ioffe wearing a Nazi-era yellow star with the word “Jude” and a call to action from Anglin:
“Please go ahead and send her a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty kike trickery. Make sure to identify her as a Jew working against White interests, or send her the picture with the Jude star from the top of this article.”
The result was a torrent of abuse, including death threats against the journalist.
On Twitter, she was sent pictures of Jews being shot in the head and pictures of her wearing concentration camp stripes. When she answered her phone, a caller began playing a recording of a speech by Adolf Hitler.
“The irony of this is that today,” Ioffe told the British newspaper the Guardian, “I was reminded that 26 years ago today my family came to the US from Russia. We left Russia because we were fleeing antisemitism. It’s been a rude shock for everyone.”
The response from the GOP nominee was also troubling. When Trump was asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the anti-Semitic attacks and death threats, the future president pointedly refused to condemn them, pleading ignorance and saying, “I don’t have a message to the fans. A woman wrote an article that was inaccurate.”
Trump’s refusal to denounce the Troll Army was greeted with delight by Anglin, who immediately posted: “Glorious Leader Donald Trump Refuses to Denounce Stormer Troll Army.” He exulted:
“Asked by the disgusting and evil Jewish parasite Wolf Blitzer to denounce the Stormer Troll Army, The Glorious Leader declined. The Jew Wolf was attempting to Stump the Trump, bringing up Stormer attacks on Jew terrorist Julia Ioffe. Trump responded to the request with “I have no message to the fans” which might as well have been “Hail Victory, Comrades!””
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Fast-forward to 2023:
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hey, where are the reich wing trolls for this post?
Roughly 80 years ago the United State, England, Frances and other countries went to war with Germany to bring down Hitler and all that he represented.
Today, we are seeing the rise in this nation exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s. Leaders in this country such as Trump, DeSantis, Abbot, Musk, and others are again leading the way or at least allowing the rise of neo-Nazism. All this under the umbrella of the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech. To do as Trump has done and not denounce these pushers of hate and destruction is to provide the needed support to have them to grow even stronger and bring more willing people into their radical groups that have as their primary goal the destruction of democracy. It is not just a hatred of Jews. It is also a hatred of democracy and all it stands for yesterday and today.
The British Empire had no choice. Hitler’s Nazi Germany started the war while the US remained isolated as much as possible and neutral up to Pearl Harbor.
What caused UK to declare war on Germany?
“On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.”
How Britain hoped to avoid war with Germany in the 1930s was all about a political policy called appeasement…
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-hoped-to-avoid-war-with-germany-in-the-1930s
“Roughly 80 years ago the United State, England, Frances and other countries went to war with Germany. . . .
And the main country with the most losses in WW2 who broke the Nazi machine’s back. . . The Soviet Union. Without the USSR it’s a good possibility that your three mentioned countries wouldn’t have defeated Hitler and the Nazis.
Don’t forget that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed an alliance pact in 1939 and it lasted until 1941. Stalin and Hitler understood one another. This sent shock waves through the American left, and many who had joined the party in its fight against fascism left the party.
To be completely clear, the tide did not turn until Americans added to Lend-Lease by sending soldiers to fight. Much–most in the case of wheeled-driven vehicles–of the military hardware the Soviets used to turn back Germans from Stalingrad to Berlin was made in Detroit, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The flatboats used at D-Day and Anzio were refined and made in New Orleans (which is one major reason why WWII museum is there). To try to single out one is folly. One could not have succeeded without the other. But had the U.S. stayed out, you might be a GAGA Good German today.
Germany would never have been able to outlast or outproduce the U.S.
And they knew it.
These loser US Nazis would do well to remember that the Nazis LOST WWII and that the top Nazis either committed suicide, were executed by the allies or were imprisoned for years. Many other lower level Nazi scum had to flee to South America, create aliases and try to live under the radar.
And more than a few of those Nazi scum made their way into the US with the US government approval.
They made it here because we needed their skills. If we hadn’t, they would have been shot.
Charlie Sykes came out against Trump well before the 2016 election and campaigned against him.
Various sources including Wikipedia cite Nick Fuentes’ self-description as a Catholic integralist and Christian nationalist.
In Diane’s post about New Hampshire (2-1-2023), I added comment about the Catholic integralist and Harvard Law Professor who is considered by some to pose the most danger to liberalism. He clerked for Antonin Scalia.
I fully expect the mainstream so-called liberal media (and especially the NYT Washington bureau) to start normalizing Nick Fuentes in the next few months. Because if the mainstream Republican leaders embrace him, then the NYT will very likely be writing stories like this: “Fuentes (who is widely admired by Republicans and other completely non-partisan upright and honorable folks) says that non-whites and non-Christians have been doing harm to US democracy. Partisan Democrats, who are definitely biased because they are desperate for the support of depend on non-whites and non-Christians to seize power to enact their “woke” agenda, do not agree.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/27/bad-faith-liberalism-and-the-politics-of-false-equivalency/
“…liberals such as Jonathan Chait, Mark Lilla, Ross Douthat, David Urban, Scott Jennings, Andrew Sullivan…”
Anyone who identified those people as “liberals” has no credibility.
The problem is that the writer seems to be British, so has that odd British definition of “liberal” which includes rabid Republicans like Ross Douthat, who is to the far right of people like Gerald Ford and John McCain.