Will Bunch: This QAnon-flavored soundtrack to Trump, GOP's fascist right turn should terrify you

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American fascism isn't just wrapped in a flag + carrying a cross, but has bat-guano crazy theme music! Trump's full-on embrace of QAnon - even its melody - is the leading edge of GOP's descent into Christian fascism that should terrify folks

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This QAnon-flavored soundtrack to Trump, GOP’s fascist right turn should terrify you | Will Bunch
A terrifying Trump rally in Ohio — punctuated by a dictatorial rant backed by QAnon-associated music — highlights an alarming GOP turn.
9:22 AM · Sep 18, 2022

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If you are a political fanatic, you’ve surely heard the old saying that when fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. That’s been proven true in this fraught year of 2022 as Christian nationalism rises to our extreme right, but no one predicted this:

That U.S. authoritarianism would also come with a bat-guano crazy musical soundtrack — music that sounds like a Bible Belt altar riff, but is actually tied to the weirdly popular QAnon conspiracy theory whose legion of followers believe there’s an elite global cabal of child-trafficking, baby-blood-drinking liberal politicians and movie stars.

This terrifying crossing of some kind of autocratic Rubicon happened — where else? — at a Donald Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night.

Trump rallies are a tricky thing to cover, some 20 months after the 45th president left the White House in seeming disgrace after a failed coup and two impeachments. There’s an understandable desire to want to not give these increasingly hate-drenched rallies any oxygen, in the vain hope the flame will completely flicker out. And his Fidel Castro-length rants increasingly offer little political insight but long flights of narcissistic grievance about his 2020 election loss and an enemies list that grows longer each day.

But even had it been stripped of its creepy musical backing, Trump’s apocalyptic closing diatribe from an arena in the epicenter of Rust Belt industrial decay demands our attention — as the current front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination continues to steer his followers toward an authoritarian cult of personality, committed more to its warped leader and his perceived slights than any justifiable cause.

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[PortTack]

1. Terrifying yes, but a small crowd. We should focus too on his diminishing ability to draw ppl in

[Nevilledog]

2. But there is a disproportionately sized group of GOP candidates who believe & push this shit