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Nazis at CPAC is a frog-in-boiling-water moment for the right (www.msnbc.com)

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The white supremacist right is penetrating the mainstream right with increasing ease.

The Conservative Political Action Conference is the premier gathering of right-wing activists and politicians in America every year, and it serves as a bellwether for the direction of the conservative movement. This year Nazis showed up.

According to an NBC News report, “a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed ‘race science’ and antisemitic conspiracy theories.” (Hitler’s Nazi Party was officially called the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.”) The reporter of the article has video of one of them giving a “heil Hitler”-style salute in the lobby of the hotel where the conference took place and of other members of the group reportedly used the N-word.

This is a critical frog-in-boiling-water moment for the right: The mainstream organs of American conservatism are apparently acclimating to Nazis in their pot. That this group was able to mingle with participants at a high-profile conference, wasn't kicked out of CPAC, and wasn't appropriately condemned is a sign of how contiguous mainstream conservatism has become with white supremacist politics today.

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[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Observing from across the pond, CPAC seems at fever pitch.

Feels like none of the Christians know who they’re getting into bed with. It will be a high price for them to pay.

[-] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I think this was not the boiling frog moment, but when cpac exported itself to european venues.

as for fever pitch, if I'm not mistaken for the last few years they've had TWO cpac conferences a year.

and I'm fully convinced that the christians know who they are getting involved with, and that is an indictment on that flavor of christianity than anything else. I'm reading tim alberta's new book "the kingdom, the power, and the glory" and he goes into in part how that version of christianity got tied into republican politics. in short, I'm less surprised that nazis showed up to cpac and more surprised that cpac actually let them in the door.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Now is the perfect time to reveal, that the Boiling Frog analogy is wrong. Frogs will absolutely jump out of the water when it gets too hot.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The experiment involved removing their brains first, so it's actually a perfect analogy for Republicans.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[-] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

Hey, here's a Fun Fact: MSNBC is literally a corporate entity trying to grift liberals into defending the wealthy. Now the Nazis they overlooked might cost them money.

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