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Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Anti-Trump Anarchists

A fascist movement professes its own opposition to “fascism.”

Refuse Fascism (RF)—which was one of the organizations responsible for the ugly anti-Milo riots at UC Berkeley last month—was established shortly after the November 2016 U.S. presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. The creators of RF were Revolutionary Communist Party members Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor (an advisory board member with World Can't Wait), and Andy Zee (a spokesman for the Manhattan-based Revolution Books shop managed by the Maoist activist C. Clark Kissinger).

RF laid out its political and ideological platform in a December 2016 manifesto depicting President Trump as an illegitimately elected “fascist” and declaring: “In the name of humanity we REFUSE to accept a fascist America!”

Emphasizing the fact that Trump had lost the popular vote to Mrs. Clinton by some 2.5 million votes, RF characterized the Electoral College—which of course was where Trump had won the presidency—as an outdated and useless “product and legacy of slavery.” The illegitimacy of the Electoral College was compounded, said RF, by the fact that “Republican Party representatives and operatives have over the years … systematically suppressed the votes of Black, Latino and poor people” by means of such measures as Voter ID requirements.

Moreover, RF tried to draw a connection between nonwhite voter suppression and “the overturning of the Voting Rights Act [VRA] in 2013 by the Supreme Court”—a gross mis-characterization of the Court's decision to strike down an anachronistic VRA provision that required certain states to obtain federal pre-clearance for any proposed changes to their election laws.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Um, Hillary was the Fascist, remember? And Donald is the Constitutionalist. Remember?

Anonymous said...

These people are acting like and performing like Fascist and Anarchist. So do they even know the meaning of these 2 groups? If so then that is how they want to be ruled / govern. They are denying Democracy by their actions.

Anonymous said...

4:29, 5:52--
Oh, come on now, you don't really expect these people to be slowed down by facts & truth, do you?

Anonymous said...

Empty heads.

Anonymous said...

#DonTheCon

Anonymous said...

#ChiefCheeto

Anonymous said...

Democrats are the Fascist party notice how there is zero diversity of thought.

Anonymous said...

Not for nothing, but socialists are not anarchists...

Quite the opposite.

an·ar·chism (ăn′ər-kĭz′əm)
n.
1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.

Zorro said...

hand the punks job applications ....they'll run home to mommy