by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I hate to even talk about this dark scenario, but a recent conversation with one of my Traditionalist relatives left me troubled. What if the MAGA New Right finally took someone up on “Let’s Go Brandon?”
The first thing we have to figure out is how and why it happened. If there was no clear link between the MAGA New Right and the event, then, the Right can cry crocodile tears, say “thoughts and prayers” and go back to plotting the end of American democracy.
But if there was some sort of manifesto that said, “I DID THIS BECAUSE OF FOX NEWS,” things grow more problematic. FOX News talking heads and all the hateful MAGA New Right shitheads on Twitter would go dark for 24 to 48 hours while they thought through their talking points. A few less clued-in MAGA New Right shitheads would tweet something tone deaf that go them in trouble.
After a day or so, the same playbook as a really bad mass shooting would be used. This is not the time to politicize this tragedy. We should all unite as a nation (but not behind the new president.) The MAGA New Right would hold their ground, hoping that once people’s anger subsided they could go back to being fucking cocksuckers.
The point is — the MAGA New Right is entirely based on bad faith arguments. They are blood thirsty and are itching to murder people like me in cold blood. At some point, there will be a tipping point — maybe when someone starts to scratch that itch. It could be a civil war, it could be a lone wolf.
But we need to be prepared.
