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The political world is now divided into people who deal with objective reality and are genuinely concerned with the future of this country—and, on the other side, the president's brownshirts.
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Words, as the historian Thucydides warned 2,400 years ago, habitually change their meanings to reflect passing political orthodoxy — and thugs, commissars, and brownshirts oversee the charade.
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At the weekend march, the infamous hoods and robes of Klan rallies or brownshirts of neo-Nazis were hard to find, with many dressing like Mr. LaPorte.
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This is a particularly strange move for someone said to be a modern brownshirt/fascist/crypto-Nazi.
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To the top left, a cake version of every brownshirt’s favorite space ship, Serenity, followed by a Yellow Submarine that is just far too beautiful to eat.
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Security forces and brownshirts, working together to crush dissent with brutal violence.
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1932
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