America has been mastered by a dangerous terrorist network, coordinated by liberal media for George Soros' money, and all controls Antifa's president from a secret depot in fresh York City. Reading the right-wing media, listening to their podcasts or watching the Instagram rolls, you can get the impression that its main goal is to torment opponents, with president Trump at the head.
It seems that the American right has taken to heart the classical tactics "when you are strong, pretend to be weak." They have the advantage in the media (especially on the Internet), they have the highest state positions, they have plenty of resources and support for most oligarchs, but they inactive put themselves in the position of the victim, due to the fact that it sells great. Although it sounds a bit unusual in the mouth of people who pose as tough guys at the same time, photographing themselves with a rifle.
As part of this tactic, Republicans are trying to compression like a citrus of Charlie Kirk's murder, right-wing propaganda. The full media and political device began portraying Kirk as an almost holy martyr, and the Conservatives as a site that is exclusively attacking.
In this regard, the right no uncertainty decided to dispel many nasty events. So possibly we could usage a small memory refresh.
On 12 August 2017, a demonstration of white nationalists and countermanifests of leftist organizations, including anti-fascist organizations, took place in Charlottesville. James Alex Fields Jr., a associate in the march of the far right, deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counter-demonstrants, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, a social activist and civilian rights defender. 35 people were injured.
On 28 October 2022, the attacker David DePape broke into Nancy and Paul Pelosi's home in San Francisco, looking for the talker of the home of Representatives. erstwhile he did not find her, he attacked her husband, 82-year-old Paul Pelosi, with a hammer, causing severe head and hand injuries. The attack had a clear political context – the perpetrator said he wanted to “interview” Nancy Pelosi.
In September 2025 an attack on Democratic politicians occurred in Minnesota. The perpetrator, disguised as a police officer, entered the home of erstwhile State home talker Melissa Hortman. He shot her and her husband. Earlier, the same perpetrator attacked and injured Senator John Hoffman and his wife. The attack was deliberately targeted at democratic organization politicians.
Uncomfortable facts and erased victims
This failure of memory may be surprising, especially in the context of mocking the victims of these attacks by any right-wing commentators and politicians. Of course, it's planned amnesia – it's best for people not to remember it. Therefore, just in case, the U.S. Department of Justice removed its own survey from its website, which showed that extremists on the far right killed more Americans than left or muslim radicals. The deleted study showed that since 1990 the right-wingers have committed many times more ideologically motivated killings (227 events that consumed over 520 victims) than the radicals left (42 attacks, 78 victims). Uncomfortable facts make it hard to be a sacrifice forever.
With this, Vice president JD Vance can claim that it is "the statistical fact that most madmen in American politics present are arrogant members of the far left." Criticizing the left, the right likes to invoke George Orwell's unread by himself, while it turns out that they are pursuing an Orwellian policy in practice, though in the US, alternatively than in the UK, as the celebrated socialist predicted.
For Donald Trump and the right, mostly fact is relative. Therefore, the president of the United States announced on Friday that most of the political force in the country is liable for the "radical left", while most of the far right is extremist due to the fact that he supposedly "does not want to see crime on the streets". actual Knights of the Law.
President Trump's tactics of pretending to be a victim are utilized for broader political purposes, specifically to attack the media. "I read somewhere that 97% tv stations are against me. I get 97 percent negative feedback from them, they're just making me bad publicity in the press. I think possibly they should get their license." Another comment continued: “They take a large communicative and make it a bad thing. Personally, I think it's truly illegal erstwhile individual presents 97% of bad news about a person. It is no longer freedom of speech, it is nothing, it is just deception, and they cheat.” Of course, he did not supply the sources of this information, due to the fact that specified details are irrelevant to him and his constituents. All that matters is what they can do with it now. And they do a lot.
Hate speech in the United States: There is no turning back
A demonstration of the strength of the fresh administration and a test of loyalty to media corporations has become the attack the right hand brought on popular comedian Jimmy Kimmel from ABC station. In his show, Kimmel criticized the "MAGA band" for trying to "take political points" at Kirk's death, mistakenly suggesting that the shooter might have been Trump's supporter.
After these words, the right-wing female launched an online and media attack on Kimmel. But it didn't end there. The president of the national Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, publically demanded action against Kimmel, utilizing a phrase that sounded like mob blackmail: “We can do it in an easy or hard way... or the FCC will have additional work to do”. It was a public threat to take tv licenses. Under the influence of this pressure, ABC (whose owner is Disney) decided to suspend the program "indefinitely".
This provoked outrage on the part of liberals and left and joy on the right. Interestingly, the right hand, in its latest version of the attack on freedom of speech, refers to “the speech of hatred”. For example, lawyer General Pam Bondi threatened that the administration would "absolutely track and pursue" anyone who utilized "the hatred speech". president Trump openly suggested that criticism aimed at him is simply a form of “hate”. In consequence to an ABC reporter's question, are they going to prosecute a hatred speech, Trump replied that they should “probably go after people like you” due to the fact that he felt that the reporter had “a lot of hatred in his heart.”
Trump mostly believes that a hatred speech preaches anyone who has the nerve to publically criticize him, not just the media. Therefore, he suggested to the already mentioned prosecutor Pam Bondi that she should apply RICO (a law created to combat the mafia) against the demonstrators in the Palestinian case, as 1 of the protesters interrupted him by shouting out dinner consumption at the restaurant.
One of the fewer voices of criticism on the American right was raised by Senator Ted Cruz, who condemned the way Brendan Carr, president of the FCC and Trump nomination, utilized his position to force ABC/Disney to take action against Kimmel. Cruz stated that Carr's threats were “taken out of Boys of the coolIt’s okay. ” The threat of “we can do it in an easy way or in a hard way” sounds like a “mafioso entering the bar” saying, “You have a good bar here, it would be a shame if something happened to him” utilizing the characteristic accent of Italian gangsters.
Cruz understands perfectly well that the full criticism of the concept of “talk of hatred” which the right has grown over the years, now has collapsed like a home of cards, and erstwhile the Democrats return to power, there may no longer be a relief tariff.
But specified voices are isolated. Most of them gloat over freshly gained power and intend to usage the state baton without moderation. It's beautiful typical that the right loves to talk about freedom of speech erstwhile it's in opposition. While in power, he shuts his mouth to critics under any pretext. The concept of freedom for the right is purely useful, does not take it seriously, and people who believe in fairy tales about “absoluteism in the field of freedom of speech” in the performance of e.g. right-wing champions like Elon Musk are simply naive.
Problems older than Trumpism
Just as naive were those who thought the right would fight political or economical centralism. Trump's first months of regulation include limiting state rights and having ostentatious dinners for corpolords specified as Mark Zuckerberg of Meta or Satya Nadelli, the head of Microsoft.
Tales of the “free market”, “anti-corporationism”, “free speech” were and are tools for gaining power, not any real plan that the right-wingers intended to implement. It's all been a blur.
This does not, of course, apply exclusively to the American right. Our Americanized right wing has a akin idea. Especially a Confederate who tells akin stories. Therefore, events in the US have any meaning for us – precisely due to the influence that events and trends in the US have on the minds of our right-wing people. Many of them copy, including the elaborate allegations against the left on the consumption of "soy latte". This besides applies to American Cultural Wars, hailed continuously by the right (who then accuses the left) and who are then transplanted on our ground, frequently word for word. This is simply a distraction from our local problems.
The right has long threatened that "Sweden no longer exists", "France no longer exists", but in fact there is no USA that we have known and have frequently had the habit of criticizing. We have demonstrated many years on the left against Bush's politics, but we have besides protested Obama's kunktatory. Others, fascinated by this country, told stories about “checks and balances” that allegedly were expected to defend the United States from dictatorship.
That planet is leaving, and the United States is prowling into something else. It is hard to tell how this phase will end, but it does not look like evolution in a better direction – which will besides affect us. This is related to various interior processes, but besides the slow failure of hegemonic position by the US and fear of China. Structural contradictions are older than Trumpism. economical and racial inequality, the growth of the power of corporations – these are issues that the Democrats have not addressed.
This has long been the origin of criticism from the left, the 1 left of the Liberals, which predicted that the focus on the economy always ends with an imminent increase in authoritarian tendencies in politics. For example, if only a fewer corporations control most of the media market, it is adequate to intimidate, buy or otherwise encourage a fistful of wealthiest people in the country, so that abruptly the majority of the media are influenced by 1 political option or more agreeable to this option.
The case of ABC and Kimmel is not the first. Paramount/CBS paid $16 million in settlements for—as the station itself claimed—a devoid of a real-world suit against the 60 Minutes program, and then cancelled the comedian Stephen Colbert's program, which Trump very much dislikes.
Someone might remind you that this is not the first American moral panic specified as “red scare”. The difference is that this time the crack is much deeper and runs in the heart of the mainstream. erstwhile the Fanatized Rightist with Trump at the head speaks of "leftist radicals," he means the full Democratic Party, not just the American Left to the left of this party.
We request to start to realize this and learn from it. This is not a “work accident” and the problem will not be solved magically with the departure of Donald Trump. Trumpism is only a manifestation, not a origin of a illness digesting the US, and the problems that have spawned it will stay in the US for a long time.
The US does not exist, plunges into interior tensions and external contradictions in the conflict to keep hegemony. Thus, the default strategy among the elites in Poland to base its goals and action on the US is wrong. Especially if it gives a deceptive sense of strength based on the large Brother from across the ocean, which drives us to frequently meaningless clashes with our neighbors. The American right gives adequate reason to rethink our position.
Thus, the above considerations are not simply a description of the situation in the US, but an effort to draw attention to the fact that the planet as we have known, praised or criticized has already ended. But it has always been any form of delusion that most of the society in this most pro-American country in the world.
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Xavier Wolinski – publicist, activist, author of Wolnelewo.pl.
