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Fascists already burning ballots in Oregon and Washington

Fortunately, fascists are stupid, so they are burning ballots in states that won't vote for the fascist anyway.  But this is certainly an ominous development.  

(I do want to acknowledge what a longtime reader said to me recently, which was very true, namely, that fascism would represent an intellectual improvement for Trump, who is a man strictly of resentments.   But Trump's psychological disturbance–his narcissisim, his lack of empathy, his need for adulation–makes him an instinctive fascist, as it were.)

(Thanks to Charles Bakker for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  Reader Alan Aronson writes: "The corner of Washington where the arson took place was in a Democratic area of a Republican-majority congressional district that a Democrat won last cycle in an upset" (see, e.g.).  Alas, these fascists may have been more targetted in their goal.

 

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