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more generally: any American seriously committed to democracy (apart from other ideological commitments) needs to grapple with the fact that racists and ethnonationalists are a permanent fifth column in US society and a chronic threat not just to social justice but to social order itself. (1/2)
[Christopher M. Federico]relatedly, one thing that has happened to me as I have aged is that I have cast off every last vestige of residual Gen X free-speech libertarianism and now believe that some kind of Volksverhetzung is a prerequisite for civilization in a country that has our history of violent racism