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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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      1 day ago

      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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          7 hours ago

          They have this delusion that if they were to get rid of trump everything would be back to normal. Instead of protesting the machine they protest a cog in it, a clog that easily replaced