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Maria Hill's avatar

The projection is unbelievable. It is always a mistake to believe your own nonsense, which this man does. I grew up in the same kind of environment this man spouts. I remember thinking at a young age that all of this ranting has nothing to do with reality. I think Hillary Clinton was right when she said that we need deprogramming of the right. This is insane. Thank you for posting this. Everyone needs to see it.

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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

I would call this dude insane, but that would be an insult to all those good people with legitimate mental health issues. Let's go with, I don't know, "deranged"? Does that do it justice? I don't know, man.

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defineandredefine's avatar

High on his own farts?

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Jake's avatar

I used to play the "fun" game "Stupid or Evil?" with these types: Is he stupid for thinking the least virtuous and least disinterested public leadership in US history is in lockstep with the Founders and Framers? Or does he get it and he's saying it to further some horrific goal? Now it's obvious that those two things are not mutually exclusive.

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Madeline's avatar

The phrase “woke nationalism” is so bizarre because the people they would likely describe as the “most woke” are anti-nationalist.

Also, given his position of power, I would be hesitant to label this derangement or self-delusion and more likely to consider it blatant lying for the purpose of obtaining more power.

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Sam.'s avatar

No, you see, the left are nationalists, too, so if anything, they're the real Hitlers!!!!

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Ivan's avatar

I suspect there wasn't much grappling with the nuts and bolts of how to handle day to day life after civil service expertise and cheap immigrant labor has been purged.

What's the plan when things inevitably go sideways and they're faced with an angry citizenry that hasn't been conditioned to reflexively blame the woke left for every problem?

Start shooting?

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Bern's avatar

Start?

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Chris Oster's avatar

These people truly want to bring about a second Dark Age. And after the past three weeks, I fear they’re much too close to this for comfort.

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Sonny Bohanan's avatar

Great article for In These Times. Keep up the good work, Hamilton. Your writing gives me hope for our future.

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Peter Kurze's avatar

Wut?!?!? Thanks HN. I feel like I personally owe you some beers and a good sandwich.

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Peter Kurze's avatar

P.S. I was serious.

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Linda McClelland's avatar

Read both this and the These Times article with interest. Trump has long been known for turning what should be said about him onto his accusations of the other side. These people took his lesson.

My question: how the heck did they let you in?

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Hamilton Nolan's avatar

A lot of right wing events are in the "all press is good press" camp because they assume that the mainstream press doesn't like them no matter what and they'd rather not be ignored.

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David Nolan's avatar

I wonder if the "[unclear]" in the third paragraph of Kevin Roberts' speech is supposed to be "shit"?

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Practical Foh's avatar

That's some haaaard projection.

It blows my mind that people believe this stuff.

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Ron Davidson's avatar

So they are National Conservatives, eh? Should we start calling them NACI's?

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defineandredefine's avatar

Certainly where my mind went with that phrase...

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….'s avatar

What a moron.

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defineandredefine's avatar

Welp, those certainly were words.

And what's so fascinating about those words is that they reveal that well-financed powerful elites find themselves increasingly on the outside of polite society, and they fail to grasp that it's because they are truly hateful, despicable people who want to embrace the worst failures of our history.

Other than that, good speech.

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Marisa's avatar

Guy is a nut job. We are in trouble if trump gets in. They are the ones who want to take out freedoms away and want to push their beliefs on everyone else.

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Henry Strozier's avatar

Himmler, in Hell, must be howling with laughter and joy that such obvious propaganda is doing its work in America via the Heritage Foundation. Right wing drivel as slick as snail slim accusing the Left of doing what the Heritage Foundation wants, and will do, if their blessed rapist, liar, and stupidly cruel candidate "wins" the presidency.

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