If you are still a Republican, then you are fine with that- and you are part of a shrinking minority.
Nine members of the far-right Proud Boys group and three protesters are facing riot and assault charges after a street brawl between them Friday night in New York.
The fight wasn’t a random clash, though: The Proud Boys were in Manhattan thanks to an invite from the Metropolitan Republican Club.
In a speech at the club, which was vandalized before the event, Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes waved a sword at anti-fascist protesters and celebrated the assassination of a socialist Japanese politician. McInnes, a Vice co-founder who left the company in 2008, dressed up as the Japanese assassin who killed the politician, complete with glasses that made his eyes into a racist caricature of a Japanese person’s eyes.
It was a bizarre event to host at the GOP’s Manhattan clubhouse, but the Metropolitan Republican Club defended McInnes and the Proud Boys after the fight. In a statement released Sunday, the club said McInnes’ speech “was certainly not inciting violence.”
These are the Republican version of the Brownshirts- mindless little thugs that are given permission to use violence to express their bigotry…
And the majority of republicans feign ignorance and say ‘But what about the anti-fascists, aren’t they really just as bad?’
The answer is no, no anti-fa is not ‘just as bad’- one side is advocating violent murderous oppression based on race, religion and sexuality, the other side is fighting that…
I had relatives that killed nazis and defended their victims- we used to call such people ‘the greatest generation’… it is the duty of Americans to oppose fascists. Especially when these fascists have shown themselves to be traitors willing to accept aid from hostile foreign powers.