A grand total of seven people showed up outside near the Capitol Tuesday morning to protest the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general.
The protesters identified themselves as members of “refusefascism.org,” and their anti-Sessions protest seemed to be doubling as a promotional campaign for an upcoming march against the “Trump-Pence regime,” scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 14.
When asked if they believed Trump, his running mate, and his appointments were truly fascist, the protesters were shockingly serious in their charge.
“The toxic nationalism, the unbridled white supremacy, the clampdown on women, minorities, immigrants, and especially the threats on the press, the hitting back at any form of dissent, and the promise of all of that having the weight of law behind it is the definition of fascism,” protester Lucha Bright told LifeZette.
Of course, Fascism typically refers to the corporatist political ideology of Benito Mussolini and his political party, the Italian Fascist Party, which ruled Italy from 1922 until 1943. But that didn’t stop Bright from mimicking a typical SJW-style social media post.
When confronted with the fact that Donald Trump’s daughter is Jewish, and is married to a practicing Jew who was yesterday named as a senior adviser to the president (not to mention the fact that Trump has a number of minorities working for him), Bright couldn’t be sure that Trump was in fact a white supremacist, but nevertheless maintained that Sessions’ “whole life and whole career is a testament to white supremacy.”
“He said the only problem he had with the Klu Klux Klan was that they smoked weed, a Klan that’s an open terror organization terrorizing black people for decades and generations,” Bright said. “In the ’80s he went after civil rights workers who were registering black people to vote and put them on trial, he has done all of this stuff with the death penalty targeting black people,” she said.
“Everything about him, everything that’s ever come out of his mouth, everything he’s ever done is piles of evidence that this is white supremacy,” said Bright.
This simply isn’t true. Sessions, for example, worked to reduce crack cocaine sentencing disparities, which disproportionately affected black people. When he was a U.S. attorney, he desegregated schools and pushed for the death penalty for a Klansman who murdered a black man. The charge that Sessions targeted voting rights has been debunked.
But being confronted with these facts did not change Bright’s mind. “I don’t know what’s going on in that man’s head but I know what the whole record shows,” she insisted.
Bright and her six cohorts were more interested in advertising their would-be revolution and stopping Trump’s imaginary fascist dystopia than they were protesting Sessions.
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“This has to be stopped before it starts,” said Bright. “People who wanted to ‘wait and see’ with Hitler, waited to see and thought they could work their way through it and it ended in crimes against humanity and millions in death camps,” she added. “We cannot wait for that. We have to stop this before it starts.”
“That’s why we are getting in the streets Jan. 14,” she continued. “Hundreds and thousands, leading to millions, day after day — not a protest and go home — day after day, night after night, growing as we go, and creating the kind of political situation in this society that prevents the Trump-Pence regime from taking power.”
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