The MAGA Movement: A Threat to Democracy
I just finished writing a post on Dailykos that argued that the entire MAGA movement is a Genocidal Neo-Confederate Death Cult. They want to return America to the “Greatness” before the Civil Rights Act when America participated in mass racial sterilization, terrorism via lynching mob and race riots such as the Tulsa Massacre, Convict Leasing, War Crimes such as the Trail of Tears, tragically deadly Boarding Schools for Native American children where graveyards have been found under their foundations, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese Internment and Operation: Wetback.
A History of Racial Violence
The story of America is a story of racial violence and murder. The goal of the MAGAs is to deny that truth and also to repeat its horror and crimes. This is why they implement censorship in our schools, and criminalize people for being gay or even discussing the subject and existence of LGBTQ persons.
White Supremacist Plots
Yet again, the proof had made itself evident as a group of White Supremacists have been indicted for plotting an Assassination, Terrorism and attempting to start a Race War.
Two leaders of a white supremacist group have been charged after allegedly plotting assassinations and terrorist attacks that they hoped would bring on a race war.
In a 37-page indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on Monday, Dallas Erin Humber, 34, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, were accused of leading a network of channels on the Telegram app that promoted “white supremacist accelerationism.”
Court filings said the ideology was “centered on the belief that the white race is superior,” and the leaders hoped to start a race war that would collapse the government to create a “white ethnostate.”
The men were accused of soliciting members of the so-called Terrorgram Collective to carry out assassinations and critical infrastructure.
The court filings said that a U.S. senator, a federal district judge, and a former U.S. attorney were included on a hit list of “high-value” targets. State and local officials and leaders of private companies and nongovernmental organizations were listed.
The indictment alleged that the men told members to “take action now” and assassinate the targets. Members were said to have been provided with instructions on making bombs and finding federal buildings.
Historical Parallels
As shocking as that may be, the truth is that we’ve seen exactly this before.
- We saw it in the Christchurch Massacre that killed over 50 people.
- We saw it at the El Paso Walmart massacre that killed 23 people.
- We saw it at the Buffalo Tops market massacre that killed 11 people.
- We saw it at the Tree of Life Massacre that killed 10 people.
- Lastly, we saw it at the Attack on the Capitol which ultimately took the lives of 9 people.
Global Impact
Prosecutors said that the white supremacist leaders inspired plots in the U.S. and around the world. During a 2022 attack in Slovakia, two people were killed at an LGBTQ bar. Five were stabbed in a knife attack outside a mosque in Turkey. In the U.S., law enforcement foiled a member’s planned attack on an energy facility.
Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen said the crimes went beyond “mere words” because attackers were equipped with actionable plans.
“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes – all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “Today’s arrests are a warning that committing hate-fueled crimes in the darkest corners of the internet will not hide you, and soliciting terrorist attacks from behind a screen will not protect you. The United States Department of Justice will find you, and we will hold you accountable.”
Telegram’s Role
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France last month, where prosecutors alleged that his platform had been used for criminal activity. Telegram has since agreed to increase the moderation of private chats.
Trump’s Racist Rhetoric
While this is going on, we have Trump claiming that Immigrants from Haiti are eating ducks and pets— which is just plain weird. He’s again stoking the fires of racism.
According to a report from the Guardian’s Ben Makuch, a common sight at Trump rallies are signs handed out by the campaign that state in all caps: “MASS DEPORTATION NOW.”
That message falls in line with demands from neo-Nazis who are undergoing another resurgence as the election nears.
The report notes that Trump himself has been spreading racist memes on his Truth Social account, with Makuch writing, “Among them were memes implying the Democrats will bring rapists into the country and a 2012 photo of men in Karachi, Pakistan, burning an American flag with the caption: ‘Meet your neighbors […] IF KAMALA WINS.'”
“Known figures on the far right and their online denizens are seizing on the open hatred of immigrants from the top Republican and going even more public with their brand of activism,” the Guardian is reporting with Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) explaining, “At this point, demonizing and lying about immigrants is part and parcel of the far-right scene and a major part of its anti-immigrant messaging.”
She added that racist groups see their message being “mainstreamed by political figures”.
According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), “These groups will continue to hold anti-immigration rallies before the November election because they see an opportunity to recruit and gain publicity within the broader anti-immigrant space,” before warning, “These extremist groups are not popular but frequently try to gain momentum from culture-war issues in an attempt to stay relevant and recruit.”
Trump’s Dangerous Plans
The Trump campaign inflaming hate crimes and far-right activism is not without precedent. A study out of the University of North Texas on the 2016 Trump campaign, one that held nativist racism at its core, statistically proved that in places where Trump held one of his over 300 rallies there was a ‘226% increase in hate-motivated incidents,'” the Guardian is reporting.
And also that if he is re-elected he’d create firing squads and hangings for Gang members. [Somehow, I don’t think he’s going to bother with a trial or a conviction first since he claims all the courts are “rigged.”]
Former President Donald Trump reportedly wanted to kill drug dealers and gang members in mass executions that would be a spectacle aimed at demonstrating his power.
Sources tell Rolling Stone that Trump would regularly make angry demands about using either firing squads or gallows to mass-execute gang members in a way that would see “bodies pile up in the streets.”
“F—ing kill them all,” Trump would say, according to Rolling Stone’s sources. “An eye for an eye.”
The former president also referenced the way authoritarian regimes dealt with drug dealers by saying, “Other countries do it all the time.”
“He had a particular affinity for the firing squad,” one former Trump administration official told the publication.
The report goes on to detail exactly why Trump was not successful in his endeavors.
“That mass executions were not a feature of Trump’s term is a credit to the American justice system and the more sober-minded government officials who were unwilling to be complicit in his mad schemes,” reports Rolling Stone. “These aides and advisers typically put the president off, making vague promises to ‘look into’ the idea, long enough to let Trump’s tyrannical tantrum blow over.”
However, the publication warns that guardrail is far less likely to hold in a second term.
“A second administration will not feature advisers in the mold of former Chief of Staff John Kelly, or Defense Secretary Mark Esper — establishment Republicans with a stake in keeping Trump constitutionally in bounds,” the report notes.
No, Project 2025 is specifically designed to remove the institutionalists who would abide by the constitution — and due process — and tamp down these mass murderous impulses by Trump. It would line the government halls with arrays of like-minded syc
