What do the fascists get out of saying the truth? Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine? My conservative family is sharing this vid around and I’m very confused on what to do. Why can’t it be socialists and communists who get millions of views by talking like this?
There is no principle with reactionaries, only appearances. This is entirely about aesthetics to them. They like Putin for being an orthodox queerhunter, not for being a stopgap to Amerikan expansionism. They like Xi for having balls of steel, not for putting the capitalist class in its place and offering an alternative to western allegiance to the global south.
Consequently, the right's occupation of anti-war protests will never lead to a policy change within the Republican party, in spite of the GOP paying much more attention to the vibes that resonate with their electorate than the Dems do. They know from the Trump years that they can stick to the entirely gestural and performative, simple and meaningless things like their guys saying something nice about Putin. It will be enough to make the libs scream Russiagate all over again, which will be enough to give the hogs the nice, fuzzy glow of having triggered the libs, and nothing will fundamentally change.