In Southaven, Mississippi, during a rally held on October 2nd, the president got on stage to mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford over her testimony during the Kavanaugh hearings. Later, on the 8th, despite previously feigning impartiality towards Dr. Ford, Trump was already calling her accusations a “hoax” perpetrated by the Democratic Party, a statement in line with Kavanaugh’s own paranoid claim that the accusations against him were partisan revenge orchestrated “on behalf of the Clintons.”
When protesters showed up on October 10th to rally outside the Supreme
Court and oppose the confirmation vote, they were detained en masse by
police; a total of 164 were arrested. Trump responded by repeating a
claim he’d made earlier that week, when infuriated women confronted
Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator just before the confirmation vote:
that these protesters were paid for by George Soros, the favorite boogeyman of the global far-right,
and the center of an endless anti-Semitic conspiracy theory the
international fascist movement has used to smear genuine leftists for
years.
On October 12th, the Republican Metropolitan Club hosted Gavin McInnes and his pack of rabid fascist dogs. The event was scheduled on the anniversary of the death of Inejiro Asanuma, a Japanese socialist politician who was assassinated by 17-year-old fascist Otoya Yamaguchi on live television. It is wrongfully considered “the death of leftism in Japan” by unlearned American rightists, who still drool at the idea of such a brutal public slaying of their political enemies. Gavin came equipped with a prop sword for effect.
Afterward, the Proud Boys unleashed an attack on protesters outnumbered 10-to-1, stomping and kicking their victims while shrieking homophobic slurs and bragging about “beating foreigners.” The NYPD officers on the scene, predictably, stood aside and enabled the fascists while they indulged in the indiscriminate violence that defines their movement. The next day, Fox News deliberately misreported the incident, claiming that antifascists were responsible for the attack… .
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