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  A few weeks ago, I wrote what I'd call a  colorful   critique of the Democratic Party's leadership. Within it, I noted that they had "helped  pave the way for palpable fascism to ascend in both the Oval Office and Congress." I hadn't set out to examine the Republican Party's relentless streak of frothing illiberalism, but a few people noticed that single line and called me on it. It's fair to question whether this kind of rhetoric is just the usual hyperbole you see from partisan extremes.  I'm a Republican - not that I'm entirely sure what that means anymore. This version of the party is neither conservative nor liberal, neither libertarian nor constitutionalist. Are we witnessing "palpable fascism" in senior leadership? The answer is... kind of . We're wired to recoil at the big, bad labels - dictator, Nazi, communist, Marxist, fascist - and rightly so. They're often misused, their meanings diluted into little more than rheto...

  Looking at this picture in 2020 nearly made my eyes roll so far back they'd plinko down my spine at such velocity they'd perforate my bowels and crack the earth's crust. Viewing it feels like a sudden memory jolt - the kind that transports you back to being 12 years old, frozen in place trying to talk to a girl, only to stand there beet red, gooning silently until her evolutionary instincts kicked in and she chose to deny your existence for the rest of her natural life. To call it cringe would be a tragic understatement; these people are so hopelessly unserious and disconnected from tangible reality that they'd drape themselves in Ghanaian Kente cloth - a rare textile actual Ghanaians struggle to access - and kneel in solemn performance art for... whom, exactly? Who was this for?! George Floyd's death was tragic (if you think otherwise you're a neanderthal who jerks off to state violence), but it's the same energy as dressing up like Natives to apologize f...