Originally published at: Ron DeSantis campaign fires staffer who produced and publicized video posing DeSantis with Nazi sonnenrad emblem | Boing Boing
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How axios covers the consequences for the horses:
“The Intrigue?” How detached can you be?
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That Axios’s thinks “why it matters” is “campaign disorder” rather than “campaign used Nazi symbolism” is a stark intance of the newsroom precept that politics is a meaningless race with no consequences for anyone but the horses.
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Seth Cotlar had a good thread earlier about the sharp uptick in Nazism by young conservatives.
It’s about a year 'til the GOP convention, which is plenty of time for the party to continue radicalizing, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some swastika flags and Roman salutes when Trump is nominated. Also won’t be surprised when the national press tries to both-sides it.
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I’ve just checked with all my staff, and none of them are Nazis. It took like 2 minutes out of the day, simply went around the office, hands up whoever is a Nazi… no hands…
Ron, wasn’t too hard… you can do this too!
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The fascist doth protest too much methinks.
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My take is that he was fired because he posted it AND he made it. Come on, dude, no plausible deniability there. We can’t go full Nazi until the convention!
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The amount of full on Neo nazis going mask off in the Republican Party isn’t talked enough about.
Literal. Fucking. Nazis.
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What I’ve been reading is that before he posted the video, other campaign staff (including a lawyer) saw it and approved it. If true, the take that it’s all about “campaign disorder” is really grotesque, and just accepting their response “[he] is no longer with the campaign” is negligence (especially given that a lot of people are no longer with the campaign these days, for reasons unrelated to their being nazis).
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nice headline
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It looks like the DeSantis campaign is not okay with blatant Nazi iconography. But they were okay with hiring a Nazi as a speechwriter. He may not have been wandering around the office saying Heil Hitler and wearing an Alter Kämpfer pin, but I have to believe that there were sufficient signs of his views before this.
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Um, no. Not as such. The DeSantis campaign reduced headcount due to sparse funds and accidentally fired a loyal Nazi in the process.
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