Brian Beutler notes the beyond dubious claims of Trump's murderous masked thugs and the men cheering them on to model masculinity, when"
"These are men too cowardly to show their faces, who shot a good samaritan in the back over and over again."
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/alex-pretti-maga-and-the-public-meaning
"In recent years, right-wing figures have obsessed over masculinity, casting themselves as 'strong men' who will do what is necessary to 'create good times,' after 'weak men' created today’s 'hard times.'"
~ Nicholas Grossman
"Alex Pretti put himself at risk to defend his community, and his final act was protecting an injured woman, while ICE officers hide behind masks, and commentators post about 'strong men' from the safety of their homes."
"Those of us who have experienced MAGA insurrectionists as Proud Boys and militiamen in the streets can readily recognize the hypermasculine, thin-skinned men hiding behind the masks as ICE agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere."
~ David Neiwert
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https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/behind-the-masks-the-real-insurrectionists
"The whole grand political conflict we are witnessing in America is ultimately nothing more than a vast, self-mirroring game of projection, running for 30 years and longer, financed by our plutocratic overlords from the start. It would be tragically ironic for American democracy to die at the hands of a fantasy."
