In article <nJquO.405803$MC82.232847@fx17.iad>, rc.@hendrie.con says...
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> "JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman"
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> By Michelle Goldberg
> Aug. 5, 2024
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> In a normal political environment, there would be little need to pay attention
> to a new book by the far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec, who is probably best
> known for promoting the conspiracy theory that Democrats ran a satanic child
> abuse ring beneath a popular Washington pizzeria. But “Unhumans,” an
> anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter
> Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people
> in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential
> candidate JD Vance.
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> The word “fascist” gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it�s hard to find a
> more apt one for “Unhumans,” which came out last month. The book argues that
> leftists don�t deserve the status of human beings � that they are, as the title
> says, unhumans � and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good
> and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped. “As
> they are opposed to humanity itself, they place themselves outside of the
> category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman,”
> write Posobiec and Lisec.
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> As they tell it, modern progressivism is just the latest incarnation of an
> ancient evil dating back to the late Roman Republic and continuing through the
> French Revolution and Communism to today. Often, they write, “great men of
> means” are required to crush this scourge. The contempt for democracy in
> “Unhumans” is not subtle. “Our study of history has brought us to this
> conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,”
> write Posobiec and Lisec.
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> One of their book�s heroes is the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who
> overthrew the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the country�s 1930s civil
> war. The authors call him a “great man of history” and compare him to George
> Washington. They quote him on what doesn�t work against the unhuman threat: “We
> do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will
> was never freely expressed through the ballot box.”
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> Nakedly authoritarian ideas like this one are not uncommon in the dank corners
> of the reactionary internet, or among the sort of groups that led the Jan. 6
> insurrection. “Unhumans” lauds Augusto Pinochet, leader of the Chilean military
> junta who led a coup against Salvador Allende�s elected government in 1973,
> ushering in a reign of torture and repression that involved tossing political
> enemies from helicopters.
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> Pinochet-inspired helicopter memes have been common in the MAGA movement for
> years. And as the historian David Austin Walsh wrote last year, there�s long
> been a cult of Franco on the right. Nevertheless, it�s extremely unusual for a
> candidate for vice president of the United States to openly align himself with
> autocratic terror.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html
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> When you enthusiastically gush over a book that nakedly promotes fascism, *you*
> are a fascist. It is not a misapplication of the word. Vance is a fascist. MAGA
> is a fascist movement and always has been.
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> These people admire people who called *themselves* fascists, and they want their
> government to be *just like* the governments of Franco, Mussolini and Pinochet.
> So why don't they just drop the pretense and *call themselves fascists*? They
> *are *fascists.

Cry some more. You know the fix is in so you're just trolling now.