Jamelle Bouie

Right.

This thing has been happening for almost a decade now.

And with all respect to Ben Shapiro, now I'd say it's almost a little too late to push back.

So, of course, he's getting into kind of a ferocious pushback because it's almost like a fait accompli at this point.

It's happened.

You scroll the feeds of the Department of Homeland Security, and what you see are like explicit allusions to Nazi propaganda.

The vice president of the United States, J.D.

Vance, pals around with people like Curtis Yarvin, who, although does not identify as a neo-Nazi, has sort of like, you might say, like Nazi Jason ideology about the domination of subhuman peoples, right?

Like, this is just part of the firmament of...

a good deal of professional Republican politics right now.

And I don't know what to do about it, but the rise of Fuentes as a player could be seen coming a mile away.

And

I would go even further and say that being put in a situation where you may have to vote to cover up child sexual abuse is not just a hazard, but I'd say like the inevitable result of this, right?

Like the kinds of politics we're describing are politics that are built on exploitation and domination and hierarchy and the destruction of other people.

And historically speaking, that stuff has always been tied up in the worst kinds of abuse of other human beings.

not just in an organized state fashion center way, but also in a direct and quite personal way, right?

So, like, my knowledge base is, like, American history and, like, history of the 19th century.

And there were... We have...

Loads of evidence attesting to pervasive child sexual abuse in the slaveholding South.

It was like, it was arguably, that's what it was, right?