Washington Post: The Pentagon Wants To Take a Harder Line on “Domestic Extremism.” How Far Can It Go?

How do you oppose “fascism” and “authoritarianism”?

• You start by demonizing an entire racial group and fomenting racial hatred against them
• You build a razor wire fence around the U.S. Capitol and order the military to occupy Washington, DC
• You construct a police state that coordinates with private actors to trample on the Constitution
• You deplatform the president of the United States and millions of his supporters from social media in a coordinated ideological purge
• You organize lynch mobs to intimidate juries
• You attack local police departments
• You usurp the rights of the states to control their own elections
• You have “journalists” hunt people down, dox them and get them fired from their jobs for their political beliefs
• You organize online lynch mobs to intimidate and punish your fellow citizens for expressing their views
• You engage in ritual shaming like in communist countries
• You create a surveillance state and cultivate a snitch culture like in East Germany
• You criminalize your political opposition by declaring vast swathes of domestic political opinion to be “domestic extremism”
• You conduct an ideological purge of the military.