Serious question - Are white supremacy groups working for the ReTHUGs

[malaise]

Not one ReTHUG has condemned this,
The leadership of the Democratic Party needs to make more about these links and the environment created by the Slobfather and his lies.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016844817/2-california-men-have-been-charged-with-plotting-to-bomb-a-democratic-building

Two California men who were angry about former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss have been indicted on charges they plotted to firebomb the Democratic Party's headquarters in Sacramento.

The defendants, 45-year-old Ian Rogers and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland, are both facing one count of conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosives. Rogers has also been charged with firearms and explosives offenses, while Copeland is facing an additional obstruction of justice charge.

Prosecutors say the two men were upset about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and wanted to jump-start a "movement" to overthrow the government. They hoped to recruit others to their cause and even reached out to the Proud Boys to try to rally support.

[underpants]

1. Racists and polluters

That’s who the Republicans represent.

[malaise]

4. Democrats should be calling them out

Where do ReTHUGs stand if these allegations are correct?

Dems should demand that ReTHUGs warn these terrorists that they are on their own.

I need some ads from Occupy Democrats and other progressive folks

[Wounded Bear]

2. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

(apologies to ducks

[The Magistrate]

3. More 'Working In Tandem With', Ma'am, I Think

There is considerable overlap in their goals, if not an identity between them, and so each finds the other a help, and feels the other can be used to good purpose.

[malaise]

7. Dems must expose these links over and over Sir

[2naSalit]

5. I've been sure of it since Charlottesville.

[zentrum]

6. It's the main reason

...they love Rump. Not the only reason--but the main one.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. But you repeat yourself.

[malaise]

9. Deliberately

This is serious

[pressbox69]

10. YES

They are. They must be shut down and crushed. Maybe the GOP can join America sometime in the future but right now they are all dangerous traitors.

[multigraincracker]

11. For the rethug party, proud boys, etc

are freedom fighters.

[spanone]

12. It appears they are criminally like minded.

[ananda]

13. They are so symbiotic I don't know how you can tell..

who's working for who. hmmm

[iemanja]

14. They are the Republicans

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. I think they are.

Along with rich people and a lot of corporations.

[uponit7771]

18. +1, weren't some rich assholes along with generals plotting to kill FDR long ago?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. Rich greedy sociopaths

Have wanted to kill every good politician that wanted to help the poor and working class have better lives.

FDR was no exception.

[plimsoll]

16. Of course they are.

However, they don't order specific actions. They have to maintain plausible deniability. They've bought into their own propaganda for so long that they honestly think that whatever they believe is the "Real America(TM)"

[uponit7771]

17. WHOA !!! This is some shit here !! We ***KNEW*** They'd escalate and they are !! Anyone telling me..

... this thing with Putin's Whore isn't going to get worse is discreted long ago but after this what more do we need?

[Hekate]

19. Trumpism has taken over the GOP, but as for hate groups in general, you can check with...

…Right Wing Watch and SPLC. “ Trumpism” would be the overarching set of beliefs that unites them as fellow-travellers.

The Magistrate has it correctly: they are useful to each other.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. dont forget the russians . these groups have been quietly in the background , popping

their heads off now and then and being the darlings of the news media for a long time . then comes along the oregon wildlife refuge takeover , a dress rehersal, now the idiot in charge of that may be running for gov of idaho. then the attempted murder of gov whitmer, yet another dress rehersal.along comes fayetteville . an then 1/6 . hem

[Upthevibe]

22. Kick....n/t

[hadEnuf]

23. White supremacist groups are a means to an end for the GOP,

as is practically everything else with them.

As you may recall, a very large portion of the GOP thought that Trump was complete joke in the lead up to 2016. But once he was engineered into the nomination and then the presidency he is now their emperor.

Plainly said, the GOP will get into bed with anybody to further their agenda.

That's why they are always screaming about morals. They actually have none.

[malaise]

24. I hear you but

aren't the white supremacists now a significant part of their base?

It's time to call them out

[hadEnuf]

28. Absolutely time to call them out.

I think white supremacy is the original base of the modern GOP.

LBJ purged a large portion of the hard-core racist Dems in the 1960's. Where did they go? Where did Reagan start his campaign in 1980? How about Newt Gingrich's strategy?
The list goes on.

What the GOP was once very careful about is now becoming more evident. Their masks are slipping off.

[malaise]

29. You're right

They moved over to the ReTHUGs after the Civil Rights Act but at least they used to pretend - now it's open season for the racists.

[stillcool]

25. white supremacists are the GOP

[Azathoth]

26. They're the GOP base

White identity movements and Christian fundamentalist movements are the backbone of the GOP base.

They don't work for the GOP; the GOP work for them, while attempting to maintain the appearance of keeping them at arms length solely for PR reasons.

[malaise]

27. Oh My!

Dems should be calling them out 24/7