New CPAC footage

[TomDaisy]

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yes that is a young Dennis Hopper.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Is that a tiki torch on his collar insignia?

The young fascists at Charlottesville were life imitating art.

I had to search for the source of this video clip, finding that it came from an episode of The Twilight Zone titled He's Alive ('he' being Hitler) - one I had somehow never seen. I find the closing narration (provided by Rod Serling) especially poignant:

Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_Alive

[TomDaisy]

3. +1

[comradebillyboy]

2. I remember that episode of the Twilight Zone.

That was before the Republicans became the Party of Treason, Insurrection and Sedition.

[SergeStorms]

4. Is that a Twilight Zone episode?

I seem to remember it as one. Rod Serling came up with some great ideas for shows.