It's because /pol/, Gab, and the Stormfags all more or less agreed to just sit down, lock the doors, and let their enemies self-destruct in their own frenzy. The "Scenario B" meme, if you will. So far, it's worked.
The actual alt-right learned their lesson the hard way after Charlottesville and Tarrant's rampage more or less solidified it. They're hunkering down, although there were rumors of actual action after Kenosha Kyle, but then he got railroaded so they're going to wait until the election is over and the Rittenhouse court proceedings are done.
Considering their commander-in-chief was a Stasi collaborator and the country has collective self-loathing written into their very constitutional laws, I'd say Germany is more or less okay with this type of commie bullshit.
Antifa gets government funding under the Merkel regime.
I know I've said it many times but punk culture was a mistake and punk was never good.
Someone should put some pronouns and pride flags in their Twitter bio and then tell them about Lenin's persecution of LGBT people. Or Stalin's. Or Mao's. Or the Kim Dynasty's. Or Castro's.
Eh, if you lived in the Bible Belt, it could get pretty bad but the issue was that it was all regional and never went national outside of the West Memphis Three trial (and that eventually became a death knell for the fundies) and most of the national outcries of the fundies and neocons were either lone nutcases attacking abortion clinics (who were quickly denounced) or typical "think of the children" attempts at media censorship.
Any genuine control of secular government was all at the local level and any national influence the fundies had was entirely because of the neocons bankrolling them as useful idiots.
The same is happening with neoliberals funding the Woke Left but the Woke Left emerged more or less from the ashes of the hated Religious Right. Keep in mind that the reason women tend to get alienated by any attempt at anti-progressive rhetoric is entirely due to the fundies more or less being associated with anti-progressivism for multiple generations. Nobody except Boomer rednecks and internet traditionalist faggot Zoomer edgelords like The Distributist want us to be a Christian theocracy or have a society based on those morals.
The coalfields of central Appalachia was more or less a de facto Calvinist theocracy in many places back in the 80's and 90's, but if you didn't live there you'd have no idea. The only actual cult-like control of authorities from the Religious Right that got national attention was West Memphis Three, and that eventually boomeranged on the fundies and more or less made the rest of the country hate the Bible Belt with a searing passion.
If the 2020 Election goes well for Trump and we see a wider backlash, then the George Floyd riots would be like the West Memphis Three and Charlottesville combined in terms of how it will affect the Woke Left.
A lot of people forget that the only reason why the Weimar Republic had all the prevalent open homosexuality, drag queens (not transgender, unless they were a rare dysphoric), and a cabaret culture of drugs and prostitution being de facto decriminalized is not because Germany was a liberal progressive country under the Weimar government but because it was a dysfunctional basket case of a failed state where nothing could get done. All those things were illegal on the books under German laws but the authority of the Republic largely existed only on paper in most places, even in the capital of Berlin.
The Freikorps, the Bolshevik gangs, the Iron Front (who were liberal social democrats that hated the communists and anarchists every bit as much as the fascists), the anarchist mad bombers, and the like were all more or less the raiders from Mad Max or the gangs in The Warriors but IRL and you even had gangs of "Wild Boys" who were gangs of gay teenage boys who were more or less the homo version of A Clockwork Orange.
The Weimar Republic was a low-functioning basket case country in the best of times and a total anarchist dystopia in the worst of times. We did get a lot of cinematic landmarks like Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, and Nosferatu and breakthroughs in architecture and music but they happened in spite of the Weimar Republic's government, not because of it.
The left using the words "deplorables" unironically in 2020 is like a right-winger unironically quoting Ben Shapiro and Sargon in 2020.
IIRC, they often use "democracy" or "democratic republic" as a shorthand since a Constitutional Republic (or at least the American model of it) uses representative democracy to distinguish it from the aristocratic republics like the ancient Roman Republic or the merchant republics of medieval Italy and the Netherlands.
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