The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.

This is not slander or pejorative or innuendo; it is the plain truth of the matter, a conclusion drawn from simple observation. And the problem has been getting worse.

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    Who flies the flags?

    The Republicans make a lot of noise about being the party of Lincoln but who still flies the traitors flag?

    Before the mustache man put too fine a point on things, there was a rising American fascist party. Now hawkish Republicans are the loudest braggers about saving Europe, but who still flies the Nazi flag?

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      who still flies the traitors flag?

      Something of a historical joke that you’ll find the Stars and Bars in modern day Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as often as Texas or South Carolina. And the folks waving it? People whose parents were voting for John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter on the eve of de-industrialization.

      There was an entire Nixon-Era Southern Strategy playing out across the Gulf Coast and the upper midwest for the last 60 years. In the modern day, the biggest indication that you’re in a Republican enclave has nothing to do with whether your ancestors owned slaves. It’s got to do with whether your paycheck hinges on the local mining, refining, and export of oil and natural gas.

      From the lobster dens of Maine to the nude beaches of Southern California, the single biggest indicator of your county’s electoral valiance is their addiction to fossil fuels.