Right-wing activist declares war on “blue state liberals” with dangerous manifesto

The descent of the right-wing into advocating outright fascism and white nationalism was one of the most distressing aspects of the Trump presidency, but now, in the post-Trump era, his adherants are going even further off the deep end.

Social media was abuzz today with outraged responses to a Twitter thread posted by Kurt Schlichter, a self-described “successful trial lawyer” and stand up comic who moonlights as an ultra-conservative columnist for a leading right-wing website, Townhall.com

Schlichter’s screed demonstrates the difficulty that the rigid ideologues of the right have in sharing the planet with others who don’t subscribe to their own limited views on how society should work and the authoritarian lengths to which they will prescribe while ironically advocating for their distorted interpretation of “freedom.”

The enraged Schlichter begins his manifesto with a virtual declaration of war against “blue state liberals” whom he seems to think are trying to severely restrict his right to do whatever the hell he pleases.

For too long red state conservatives have offered to live and let live with blue state liberals but the blues are evangelical Marxists who cannot allow us to provide a counter example of freedom. 1/

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 8, 2021

He then quickly pivots to advocating the complete subjugation of anyone who dares to exercize their own freedom of opinion and disagree with his reprehensible views.

Ban CRT, Marxism and anti-American misinformation. Nationalize big tech and academia and mandate conservatism as their operational ideology. Ban leftist media and entertainment from spreading misinformation.3/

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 8, 2021

This advocate of freedom oddly calls for blanket bans that are counter-intuitively similar to the practices of the authoritarian Marxist regimes whose ideology he is ostensibly condemning.

His calls for the nationalization of big tech — presumably including social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube — and of higher education are straight out of a communist playbook.

His advocacy of a program to re-educate the masses in proper “conservatism as their operational ideology” is not much different from what Americans are condemning China for doing with its Uighur Muslim population.

These first few tweets are bad enough, but Schlichter keeps going with even more outrageous proposals that would have gotten him laughed out of polite society in any age prior to the ascension of Donald Trump as anything other than a corrrupt New York real estate developer and reality TV host.

Use the law to ensure blue submission. Imprison dissenters. Force them to act against their deepest beliefs to keep their jobs. End all social programs and deport all illegals. Outlaw crime again. 5/

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 8, 2021

Now here are some proposals that will have America’s founding fathers turning in their graves at what is being proposed in the name of freedom.

Unjustly tax and disenfranchize the childless!?!? Tie the ability to own property and to vote to mandatory military service!?!?End Social Security, Medicare, and all other social services!?!?

These ideas are not rooted in conservativism in the least, but are concepts generated by the radical lunatic fringe that would be even more shocking if they weren’t almost unintentionally rediculous and even funny.

I mean, come on: “Outlaw crime again?” Again? Wasn’t it illegal to begin with?

They started it. 7/

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 8, 2021

Schlichter’s juvenality is truly revealed in his final two tweets in the thread where he resorts to the same excuse that my younger brother used to say to my mother when we were caught fighting.

“They started it.”

It’s actually frightening to read opinions like this emanating from Trump supporters who have already demonstrated their willingness to resort to violence to achieve their political aims as their deadly incursion into the Capitol Building on January 6th so amply demonstrated.

The response to Schlichter’s lengthy post may yet restore your faith in America’s less deranged citizens as Twitter denizens shared their dismay at his dangerous authoritarian proposals in the name of “Freedom.”

Feigning a threat and declaring that you're only acting in self-defense is (I know this term is overused) fascistic rhetoric and how you spur a genocide.

— The Ghost of Dipset (@RileyStine) August 8, 2021

I don’t think I’ve heard “they started it” since I was in elementary school pic.twitter.com/uUI91370ia

— KD (@Kimistry_D) August 8, 2021

https://twitter.com/hahnalytics/status/1424191186143780865?s=20

Most red states are failed states that continuously ranking at the bottom by almost all metrics of success. The few government services are provided, are heavily subsidized by revenues from blue state economies.

— Alejandro Villegas (@thecorpmex) August 8, 2021

Along with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Pol Pot, Mao, Jong-un, Hussein, Trump, etc, you tick off every warning sign of full-blown fascism under tyrannical dictatorship as your unhinged ideology on your racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, white supremacist take. pic.twitter.com/U3UWRzwRBO

— Trinity (@TrinityResists) August 8, 2021

Most red states are failed states that continuously ranking at the bottom by almost all metrics of success. The few government services are provided, are heavily subsidized by revenues from blue state economies.

— Alejandro Villegas (@thecorpmex) August 8, 2021

Lololol. Yes. Because states such as NY and CA don't fund the programs of much poorer states. No one would have any problems at all with any person claiming to be Christian if they weren't trying to legislate a theocracy

— jonathan85 (@jonathan85) August 8, 2021

Dude… go back to 1930s Germany with this. Honestly, WTF?! This isn't even like fascism trying to hide in the form of Christian nationalism, it's just straight up Fascism.

— Adam J Schmidt (@adamjschmidt) August 8, 2021

This thread would be much more effective if it was written in its original German…

— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes) August 8, 2021

And he doesn’t leave. Because he knows he can make more and live nicer here. He won’t give up the money lifestyle. He also likes it here…beaches, mountains, lakes, parks, great cities. You can drive an hour or so after skiing and be at the beach. Lots to do and lots of nature.

— On A Bender (@on_bender) August 8, 2021

You know, Muslim bans, abortion bans, lynchings, legislating love and marriage, segregating…'to each their own' they always say!

— Andy Parrish (@AltDeptOfAndy) August 8, 2021

Perhaps the best reply was the one that truly revealed the character of the man who was spouting this clarion call for a fascistic right-wing takeover of American society by simply retweeting his response to then-President-elect Biden and his wife Jill Biden’s   empathetic Christmas message of peaceful co-existence and mutual support.

https://twitter.com/DarbysDose/status/1424192324926468102?s=20

They started it, indeed. Take your own advice to the Bidens, Mr. Shitler…oops, I mean Mr. Schlichter.

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