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Q is a fascist movement. I think the reason a lot of the Left despair about it - talk about it as if it were unstoppable - is because they've forgotten how we fight fascism, except in a quite shallow way 1/
For much of the Left for the last few decades, "ANTIFA" means keeping tabs on a small number of deplorables (ideologues, violent boneheads, political grifters) and thwarting their schemes. But the REAL stakes are stopping fascist Ideology from spreading into the mainstream 2/
Q is fascist Ideology in a new camouflage, designed to avoid the "vaccination" the world got against fascism in 1945. However, our cultural immune systems have been weakened by the mainstreaming of science denial and conspiracy theory 3/
Honestly, the reason Q seems scary is just that it's a militant version of the same conspiracy nonsense "everyone's racist uncle" has been saying at family dinners for decades, and has been politely ignored or indulged as "funny" 4/
The other vector for these shitty ideas is "everybody's New Age aunt". There has been a horrible assumption that woo-spouting hippies can't be fascist by definition. But that totally misinterprets what 60s/70s culture wars were about 5/
The hippies were individualist and sex-positive against boring, conformist Fordist capitalism. But they were also anti-science and had a cult of the "natural". That's where fascism and the New Age intersect. 6/
Anyway, the point is that Q can be stopped ONLY IF we stop being polite to racist uncle, hippie auntie, "climate skeptic" granddad, and "illuminati theorist" cousin. All those are gateways through which fascistic ideas come, which we've left open for too long. /End
