Seth Cotlar

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

"There is apparently no need for hoods anymore.
That’s what’s changed." @kkdumez.bsky.social's newsletter has been an essential guide to what's going on with the Christian right's embrace of Christian nationalism.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

To put this another way, almost every fascist domestic terrorist in the 1960s through the 1980s got their start in the JBS (Tom Metzger, William Luther Pierce, Robert DePugh, etc.), but they all left it because they found it to be too moderate.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

The Liberty Lobby also put on a show of not being too extremist, but they were run by a neo-Nazi and their literature featured tons of not particularly dog whistled antisemitism and racism. The Liberty Lobby, IOW, had no right edge that they ever set. Whereas the JBS at least sorta kinda did.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

The JBS also attracted tons of white supremacists to their organization, but made it a point to feature (a few) Black speakers and they made a public (very shallow) show of supporting Black civil rights (though not the movement that sought to secure those rights).

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

It's a fuzzy distinction to be sure, but here's why I make it. The JBS attracted tons of antisemites to their organization, but they also made it a point of having (a few) Jewish members and did expel folks who were too embarrassingly and publicly antisemitic.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

Woke libraries are censoring "conservative" books, 1961 edition. For context, the book on the right contained at least one entirely fabricated story and was written by an arch segregationist who published racist pseudo-science in a periodical edited by a eugenicist.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:41 UTC

Or maybe one might be wondering about the genealogy of an odd phrase like "Christ-hating Communist" that appears in the 2024 GOP platform. Well, there's a bit of relatively unknown US history that might offer some useful context.
bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

Or if we're wondering how a Holocaust denier could be listed as a speaker at the same TPUSA event that featured Donald Trump, several elected GOP officials, Jack Posobiec (holding up a "White Boy Summer" flag), and Alex Jones...again, this history might be of use. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

So if we're ever wondering how we got into a situation where a fascist with 2.5 million followers on Twitter can get his new book entitled "Unhumans" about the threat of "the radical left" in the US blurbed by Donald Trump, Jr...well, this history might help explain that. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

And while I'd say the John Birch Society was more of a "far right" than "fascist" organization, the other organizations and individuals who worked with the JBS in that right wing takeover of the OR GOP in the 1960s & 1970s can accurately be labeled "fascists." sethcotlar.substack.com/p/when-did-t...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

I'm currently working on a Substack post about how the Liberty Lobby and the John Birch Society were part of a far right insurgency inside the Oregon GOP in the 1960s and 1970s. They were the forces that pushed the GOP rightward, it didn't just happen naturally.
bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

A huge collection of Liberty Lobby material (as well as a treasure trove of other primary sources pertaining to the American far right from the Hall-Hoag Collection) have just been digitized and made publicly available by Brown University's library. repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

If you've been listening to the second season of Ultra, then you'll know Francis Parker Yockey...a key figure in the history of US fascism whose book Imperium has functioned like a bible of sorts for American neo-Nazis. Anyway, Carto was Yockey's friend and publisher. www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

In 1970 an organization called the Liberty Lobby, run by a neo-Nazi named Willis Carto who billed himself as a "populist nationalist" seeking to "save America" from "radical left globalists," sold a conspiracy obsessed newspaper that emphasized gun rights for "patriots" & "alternative medicine."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 03:10 UTC

What makes the absence of bacon even worse is that it’s the only proven cure for windmill cancer. It’s just criminal what the Democrats are doing to America. I’m going to go soothe myself by standing under my barely trickling shower.

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