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The Left Played with Fire

They Called Everyone Nazis — Now the Real Ones Are Here

The left was foolish to think Trump was Hitler. At most, he is Ludendorff, trying, clumsily, to hold back the reaction to leftist excess, while antisemitism runs wild on his flank.

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Marxism and socialism have always shadowed Western politics since 1848. In America, they gained traction in three waves. The first came in the late 19th century, through labor movements. The second in the 1960s, through academia and culture. The third began during Barack Obama’s second term and accelerated under Joe Biden.

In each of these waves, the radical left entered the mainstream through the Democratic Party, using tools of class struggle or identity politics.

Until recently, the same leftist voices that worked to silence the right insisted the greatest threat was “white nationalist extremism.” This, as Islamic terror attacks occurred and millions crossed the border. It was obvious the threat was manufactured. Yet through its suppression of free speech, cultural censorship, and mass immigration, the left ended up creating the very threat it had pretended to fear. By labeling everyone who disagreed a Nazi, people began saying: “If it’s you or the Nazis, I’m going with the Nazis.”

This raises a real question: Is there a discernible logic to how the radical left operates, and how the far right responds?

Looking at the three waves of American leftism: In the 19th century, it arose in response to monopolistic industrial culture. In the 1960s, it was triggered by racial injustice and the Vietnam War. Under Obama, however, it had no genuine grassroots cause. It was a fully synthetic ascent of the far left, enthroned by the Democratic Party, which in turn enthroned itself over the federal intelligence apparatus. There’s no better word for it than: a coup. One that originated not from the streets, but from the White House itself. Not from Ferguson or Trayvon Martin, but from the administration that exploited those events.

The backlash to this wave arrived with MAGA in 2015 and led to Republican victory. By 2021, the January 6 incident triggered yet another reaction, following aggressive actions by the Biden administration against conservative America.

This latest leftist wave, though partly rooted in previous struggles, rose over the last decade and a half in a manner that was exaggerated, coordinated, and inorganic. That alone may explain why we now see a steadily growing far-right movement, one reacting to the very acceleration (in identity, sexuality, and immigration) initiated by the Obama and Biden governments.

True, the subversive influence of the academic left in America persisted under Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes, and fused itself into America's lifestream, but moments of real consolidation only began to occur after 2012.

The inorganic nature of the rise of the woke left (Now hibernating), also explains why this new right has grown tired of playing symbolic games during a period of deep cultural decline. They now seek stability - and blame those who disrupted it.

In the 1910s, the Ku Klux Klan reached its peak as a reaction to immigration, particularly from Catholics and Jews, rather than in response to socialism. In the 1950s, McCarthyism focused on the threat of communism. And in the 1980s, Reagan’s Moral Majority emerged as a conservative backlash to the cultural upheavals of the 1970s. In 2015 MAGA came to live in order to stop Obama's Casino-Gulag fantasies.

But today’s Post-MAGA right movement is unique. It’s shaping national discourse and openly seeks to remake America as a Christian-only state. That’s new.

This difference reveals something deeper: The Democratic Party’s artificial rise to total power over the government, enabled not only extreme policies but a corresponding far-right willing to change the rules entirely - to prevent such leftist takeovers in the future.

Historically, Marxist forces always sought to erode the soft foundations of Western culture at its height: capitalism, liberty, family, freedom. The far right emerges either to prevent collapse, or when it deems the mainstream right too weak to resist, to take over the system and stop the fall by force. Ironically, the far right today is angry with Trump, not because he was too extreme, but because he failed to implement far-left policy reversals on the scale of Biden and Obama’s radicalism. In the meantime, both extremist camps continue to undermine the pillars of liberal republicanism. The left, due to its post-liberal authoritarianism. The right, through increasingly fascist logic. The American far right’s turn toward antisemitism is part of that. But it is not artificial. It’s a genuine reaction to leftist policy. Just like the socialist wave of the 19th century was a real reaction to monopolies. Just like the protests of the 1960s were a real response to Vietnam and racial injustice. Just like Reagan’s conservatism was a real response to cultural chaos. And yet today’s far right is different again. Not only because Antisemetism is an insane and irrational reaction, but because many of its leaders are Catholic. And there is something strange about their ideology, they do not wish to "react", they want a playing field where reaction is not up to the people actually. That's why they seek "stability", and promote Catholic or Christian nationalism. But also white nationalism. Here is a small contradiction, it's hard to promote both when most Catholics in America are not white. And opposing immigration actively undermines the possibility of making America majority Catholic...

Anyway, the real innovation of this new far right lies in what it reacts to. Not just the streets, but the state.

And because

A. The left accelerates disruptive change

B. The right obsesses over Jewish influence

C. It has its own totalitarian instincts.

The far right now believes it has “decoded the system.”

Unlike the left, it will not work from "within" the system like it Biden and Obama did. Their tactic is to re-make the American social-contract. There's no other choice when knowing no sane person will let them near a federal building.

This right, no longer sees crises as triggers for protest - but as validation for seizure of power.

In this worldview, Obama’s Marxism is “Jewish.” So is soft conservatism that tolerates immigration. So are the media and culture. Thus, both the enemies from outside and the collaborators from within appear to be Jewish-controlled forces driving instability. Which leads to a need to create a christian only government.

Sound familiar?

The left was foolish to think Trump was Hitler. At most, he is Ludendorff, trying, clumsily, to hold back the reaction to leftist excess, while antisemitism runs wild on his flank.

In truth, both extremes have now converged on one idea: hatred of Jews.

This is why the far right is calling for “stable” solutions. What the American left labeled “white nationalism” has become a monster it helped summon.

The far right’s antisemitic fixation, while not created by the left, has certainly been stoked by it, especially through the weaponization of “Palestine.”

Antisemitism, like everything else now, is a tool to redefine the structure of American politics. The left created the anti white hysteria. That birthed white nationalism. Which created anti Jewish hysteria. Which is now being used by the right in an attempt to dominate America or at least capture the Republican Party.

And as for the Democrats? No need to discuss them. They have long abandoned Americans, altogether.




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