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On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.” And on Thursday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video defending this person’s inclusion in polite-right politics: describing Fuentes not as a hate-monger to be banished from the decent right, but as a coalition member whose view of Jews-as-evil-traitors should be politely debated.

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    I feel like im in one of those movies where the nazis move underground and have a super complex plan to eventually take over america and start a fourth reich and it happening right now.

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      Very likely this is what happened. They are so bitter about their loss that they have been plotting to take the whole country down for all these years since that point

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    13 hours ago

    Wow you know it’s bad when Rafael “Ted” Cruz, of all people, is calling you a coward.

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    21 hours ago

    So funny to see White America discovering America is fascist.

    welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not.

    So many Americans have exactly zero historical awareness about where many Nazis went after the Third Reich was dissolved. There was Operation Paperclip, but they also went to a country that recently got a $40 bn gift from the Orange Führer.

    blah blah doomed to repeat it

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      they’re not a think tank like fish tank, where they have a bunch of beautiful flashy ideas that people want to see, and more like a war tank, where they shoot their ideas at (what they view as) hostile populations

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      sure they can. that’s the thing - all the thinking stays in the tank. never leaves.

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    They have secret police kidnapping people. They are literally following the third Reich playbook They are Nazis we either start fighting back or die

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      Considering how the orange man baby is filling the military with his own goons, the rest of the world can’t do anything about it. You’ll have to sort yourself out. Imma just make since popcorn and watch the show from Europe.

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        The American military has always been compromised if these people. The difference is the attack on leadership

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        Well facism is spreading like a cancer across the world and your neoliberal politicians are in bed with the same oligarchs that run our surveillance state and mass incarceration system so it’s heading right for you

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          Oh fuck OFF with that.

          We’ve been telling you for DECADES what would happen if you keep letting your kids play with matches. In response, you were shitty and belligerent. Now your house is ablaze and your response to demands that you put out the fire is, “shut your mouth, your house is next.”

          Absolutely go fuck yourself.

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            He’s right. Democracy is slipping world-wide and your “it can’t happen here” is exactly how the US got into this state in the first place. You can’t let your guard down.

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              No idea how you read “it can’t happen here” from my comment. It absolutely can, and it IS, and it’s because we were called anti-Amerixan and told “worry about your own country” for 30-40 years when we pointed out, rightly, that this was the path the US was on.

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            Many of us in the US have also been sounding the alarm for over a decade. This is a country with like 400 million people…

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        They refuse to acknowledge their ‘protests’ are organized by the same people they claim to be protesting, the same ones that prefer peaceful because it doesn’t disrupt anything and preserves the status quo

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    Remember when Godwin’s Law was suspended, and yet, lots of people continued (continue) as if it never even happened?

    Still clutching their pearls when people call the conservatives Nazis?

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    As bad as this is, and it is bad, we only need to look at Alex Jones and his open acceptance of Fuentes to see that it’s over for the Heritage Foundation. Nick worms his way into favor and now any view left of full out Nazi is too liberal. They have sealed their own fate allowing this Nazi into the fold.

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      The heritage foundations plan is being implemented more everyday I’d say that they are doing pretty good. I think they were always Nazis the mask is just off now. The divide in the party is over Isreal. Fuentes is an old school Nazi who hates Jews but Tucker is anti Zionism and Isreal funneling money into our politics. While I understand Tucker is wrong on so many issues he’s really not on the issue of Isreal. I don’t think the people in charge are going to mess with Jewish people that are zionists but the ones who are protesting the war are just going to be lumped in with “antifa”. They are Nazis but they are going to prioritize going after brown people and anyone who dissents

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      We will see. I’d love to see them tear themselves apart but I feel like this will only stir them up more. Give a Nazi a megaphone and Trumps stamp of approval and you get more Nazis.

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      19 hours ago

      HF isn’t going anywhere, despite it being viewed as a Republican think tank most of the legislation written by them has been bipartisan