People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

Source

From Truthout via This RSS Feed.

  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    16 hours ago

    Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and survival of our republican form of government,

    Oddly telling how he doesn’t say “a threat to our democracy”.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      8 hours ago

      left-wing violence

      Isn’t it interesting how they never give actual examples when they say shit like this? You’d think it would be trivial since it’s such a pressing issue.

    • ZMoney@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Just for perspective, I learned in American public school in the 1990s that the US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. This is correct, even though these rectal tumors are weaponizing it.

        • kreskin@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 hours ago

          No I dont think it is. How often does what the people want happen in congress? like 0-1% of the time right? studies have shown this. We all need to stop pretending this is a school house rock episode. Neither political party cares about their voters issues. This is not a democracy. We are ruled by people accountable to rich donors, and thats that.