~ Todd Alcott

“I've been thinking a lot recently about George Lincoln Rockwell. He was the founder of the American Nazi Party, which sounds really scary until you realize it was pretty much just him and a bunch of his friends. But he was the first person in the United States after World War II to say "Hey, you know what? I'm a Nazi, and being a Nazi is a good thing."

Why did he do it? Because that's where the money was. Like all professional bigots, he'd failed at everything else in life, and so, like all Nazis, took refuge in a childhood fairy tale about how he was secretly a member of a master race that was destined to rule over all mankind. For Himmler it was Wagner, for MAGA it's the mythical 1950s, when everyone agreed that white people were pretty awesome and those who didn't agree were denied their rights and lynched and sprayed with fire hoses and so forth.

In order to make money being a bigot, George Lincoln Rockwell went to -- what's this? -- university campuses, where he staged rallies and "events" and demanded to debate Blacks and Jews and intellectuals. What he found was that, every time he staged one of these provocations, rich people sent him money. He stuck to university campuses because that was the only place he was safe: if he staged a rally in a city square, at a time when there were 35-year-olds in the US with Auschwitz tattoos on their arms, he would get beaten up by non-Nazis. If, however, he marched onto a university campus, the liberals would be required to let him speak in the interest of free expression and a robust exchange of ideas. If the rally went well, he'd get money in the mail from rich people. If the university refused to allow him to march, so much the better -- he could cry about how liberals hate free speech and collect even more money from his donors. If he were alive today, the New York Times would say "George Lincoln Rockwell does politics the right way."

He insisted on putting the swastika front and center in all his appearances. He knew the symbol was an obscenity and an affront to everything the world went through for over a decade; that's why he insisted on wearing it, displaying it, festooning his "hate bus" (because he had a "hate bus") with it. He knew that it filled decent people with blinding rage, and that that would make rich people send him more money. That's why your Stephen Millers and Elon Musks are always happy to throw their white-supremacist hand gestures around: because it makes rich people send in money.

He eventually got enough backing to run for governor of Virginia, but he didn't do very well in the election. He did, however, in his brief run, invent Holocaust denial and the term "White Power." He was shot to death in front of a laundromat, not by a liberal, a Black, a Jew or an intellectual, but by a guy he owed money to.

I bring this up because it shows that all of these guys -- Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Milo Yiannapolis, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, Curtis Yarvin and dear departed Charlie Kirk, were ALL just random assholes who had failed at life and were approached by rich men to push hate in the mass media, because it serves their goals of acquiring wealth and maintaining power. Kirk's Turning Point USA was funded by wealthy asshole Bill Montgomery, who owned the libs by dying of COVID in 2020. Bill O'Reilly was plucked from newsmagazine obscurity to spread hate on Fox by Rupert Murdoch, Milo was a puppet for Andrew Breitbart, and on and on and on.

Anyway, I hope this chapter of American history ends soon.”