Fascism is uniquely vulnerable in its larval stages to attempts at sabotage. The psychology of fascism demands of adherents and figureheads an image of invulnerable cohesion. That’s a difficult thing to get when you only have ten people at your meetups. One guy gets humiliated and you have to scrap the whole thing or disband entirely because you’re such a small group you all may as well be one guy. Once you attain a critical mass, though, one or two twigs sticking out of the main bundle is fine. As long as nobody goes after the leader, you can do whatever the hell you want.
Punch a commie, her comrades will rush to her aid and she’ll be back on the frontline as soon as she can get there. Doxx her and her friends will still stick up for her. Publish her nudes and she’ll b a martyr for the cause.
Punch a conservative or liberal, they’ll cry about civility. Their friends ‘across the aisle’ will stick up for them. Thinkpieces will be written. Teeth will be gnashed. In the end, Senator McFuckface will be back giving fiery impassioned speeches about tax breaks within the week.
If you publicly humiliate a fascist, he’s done for. He’s worthless. He can no longer live up to the promised potential of invulnerability. The fash these days call Spencer and Heimbach weaklings and cuckolds. They think it’s because they disagree with their ideas. It’s really because Spencer got punched and Heimbach had his dirty laundry aired for all to see and so now they can NEVER succeed again.
In order to circumvent this flaw in ‘ideology,’ fascists would have to embrace their flaws, truly embodying ‘me ne frego.’ You can’t humiliate that which has no shame. Luckily for us, fascism runs on deep and profound shame.
What I’m trying to say is: punch a fascist now so you don’t die later.
