The failure of the 2018 Unite the Right march shows that - for now - Antifa's tactics work

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16. What really gets to me....

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...is that since the beginning of the W years, I've been screaming to my more "sensible" allies in our party and people generally left of center that what the Republican party was doing was heading us toward fascism and trying to undo all the advances of the last 30 years. I said we need to be stronger in the ways we fight. Not violence strong, but stronger through the established channels than our side has had a history of being the past 20 years. Those people told me I was just being extremist and alarmist. They continually poo-pooed me and insisted that we have to be "better than the crazies on the other side" and that the system would work and the checks and balances of power would work.

Well after 20 years of taking the high road here we are with fascism not just at our door but in our house and pissing all over the furniture, and these same people who didn't want to listen to me and others like me are still insisting that we can fight this scourge with nice conversation over tea and cookies and that if we just let Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi do their nice, polite jobs that all of this bad stuff will go away on it's own and we don't need to do anything that David brooks would deem uncivil.

I'm likely as safe a demographic as they come right now, but I'll be goddamned if I'll sit by and wait for all the nice, safe, established institutions of power which have already failed my brothers and sisters in the various marginalized communities to come along and save the day.