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Ronald Reagan Speaks

January 13, 2021January 12, 2021

But first . . .

Whoever sent this hurtling around social media made, I think, a helpful point:


Huge numbers of our population believe in a complete alternate reality. Alternate facts as it were. But just as intensely as I believe they are deluded, they think I am the one who is deluded. Maybe I am. So how can I be confident in my perception? It can be quite difficult.

But I have found that in times of political confusion, particularly when emotions are running high and creating tunnel vision, the presence of Nazis can be an extremely helpful indicator.

If I am attending a local demonstration or event and I see Nazis . . . neo-Nazis, casual Nazis, master race Nazis, or the latest-whatever-uber-mythology-Nazis, I figure out which side they are on. And if they are on my side of the demonstration? I am on the wrong side.

It is tough to argue moral equivalence when I am standing next to a Nazi. Look to my right. Is there a guy wearing a 6MWE (6 million weren’t enough) t-shirt? I am on the wrong side. Look to my left. If that guy is wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt? Wrong side. Wrong side. Team-spirit face paint and hat with animal horns? This is actually an unclear indicator that could mean anything, but safest to keep my distance from that guy anyway, even at a football game.

However, I can always, always, always rely on the presence of Nazis as a guiding light through a fog of disinformation.

Some things are relative, and politics can absolutely have its opposing sides and grey areas. But evil and good are absolute. So, just look for the Nazis, and make your own decisions.


Trump supporters are not all neo-Nazis by any stretch — obviously — any more than all animals are rattlesnakes.

But all neo-Nazis are Trump supporters.  And proud of it.



Another proud Trump supporter: Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, as outlined here.



And now . . .

Not that Ronald Reagan, his son.  Speaking to Conan O’Brien the day after the insurrection.  If you have time for a podcast, it’s a good one.

 

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