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In his e-book “Unhumans: The Secret History Of Communist Revolutions (And How To Crush Them),” MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec argues that Americans with left-wing beliefs are subhuman and praises the murderous right-wing regimes of Francisco Franco in Spain and Augusto Pinochet in Chile for going after the “unhumans” of their respective eras.

“President Donald J. Trump is waiting in the wings,” Posobiec stated earlier this 12 months whereas selling the e-book on the National Conservatism Conference. “And when he assumes office again, let me tell you, the globalists and their entire regime will be smashed to pieces and scattered to the winds.”

He then added: “We don’t negotiate with unhumans because that’s the stakes of this — humanity versus unhuman; populist nationalist versus atheistic Marxist; strength, beauty and genius versus weakness, ugliness and stupidity; civilization versus barbarism; crime and chaos versus law.”

We don’t negotiate with unhumans. It is explicitly fascistic language depicting a large swath of the American citizens as deserving of redemptive violence. (JD Vance, the Republican Party’s nominee for vice chairman, praised Posobiec’s “Unhumans” in a blurb, or editorial evaluate.)

On Sunday night, simply 9 days earlier than the presidential election, Posobiec took a seat in Madison Square Garden and watched as former President Donald Trump lashed out at varied political opponents from the stage. As he has all through the marketing campaign, Trump referred to as Democrats “the enemies from within,” labeled journalists “enemies of the people,” and falsely depicted Latino immigrants as immutably felony earlier than doubling down on his pledge to mass-deport tens of millions of them when in workplace.

“Best rally Trump has ever done,” Posobiec tweeted after posting a video of himself inside the sector.

Much consideration has rightfully been paid to the audio system at Sunday’s rally — the opening audio system who referred to as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris the “anti-Christ” and who stated “her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” The comic who referred to as Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and made a racist joke about Black folks carving watermelons as an alternative of pumpkins for Halloween. Many of the articles in regards to the occasion famous how its fascist rhetoric and pageantry bore an unnerving resemblance to a swastika-adorned “Pro-America” rally in 1939 on the identical enviornment celebrating the Nazi regime in Germany.

Trump later referred to as the occasion “an absolute lovefest.”

But much less consideration was paid to a few of the outstanding conservative figures sitting within the viewers or among the many overflow crowd outdoors in midtown Manhattan, folks whose continued relevance within the MAGA universe underscores simply how excessive the Republican Party has change into.

Posobiec’s account on X — the social media platform that billionaire Elon Musk, a featured speaker at Sunday’s rally, has remodeled right into a propaganda arm of the Trump marketing campaign — affords a have a look at the murderers’ row of grifters, unapologetic bigots and different far-right figures in attendance.

Posobiec has practically 3 million followers on X. During the rally Sunday, he retweeted a photograph of himself and his companions for the night. Among the folks within the picture was Michael Knowles, the Daily Wire host who final 12 months on the Conservative Political Action Conference argued that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”

There was Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official turned right-wing crusader towards what he argued was tech platforms’ censorship of conservative voices. According to NBCBenz used a pseudonym for years to push racist conspiracy theories about “white genocide.” He additionally claimed to be a member of the neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys.

“It is impossible to be here right now and not feel the love,” Benz tweeted from the rally.

Posobiec additionally retweeted a video from Ben Braddock exhibiting all of the Trump supporters who couldn’t get into Madison Square Garden watching the rally on an enormous display screen outdoors the sector.

Braddock is an editor-at-large at IM–1776, a far-right on-line journal that praises authoritarians and dictators and expresses white nationalist sentiments. The journal is funded, partially, by the Claremont Institute, a outstanding MAGA suppose tank. In 2022, as the Guardian reported, Braddock revealed a sympathetic interview with Renaud Camusthe French fascist author greatest identified for coining the phrase “the great replacement” to explain the white supremacist conspiracy idea that brown immigrants are “invading” Europe and America, usually on the behest of Jews, to “replace” white folks. The idea has impressed a number of mass shootings, together with a bloodbath of Muslims in New Zealand and a bloodbath of Black folks in Buffalo, New York.

“Walking around Manhattan with a MAGA hat, only positive reactions,” Braddock boasted in a publish on X on Sunday. “Everything has changed.”

Posobiec additionally retweeted a publish from Patrick Casey, the previous chief of the white supremacist group Identity Evropa. “Trump calls for the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American. The crowd cheers and applauds—the loudest all night,” Casey tweeted.

“This was easily the loudest of all night,” Posobiec concurred when he reposted Casey. “Even more than Elon and Trump’s intros.”

Casey, who tweeted a selfie of himself from Madison Square Garden on Sunday, marched with neo-Nazis on the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, the place his fellow marchers terrorized the city, carrying tiki torches and chanting “You will not replace us!” One of his fellow marchers additionally intentionally drove his automotive right into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.

Casey later took cost of Identity Evropa, the since-disbanded white supremacist group that advocated the “remigration” of nonwhite immigrants out of the U.S. — a widely known euphemism for ethnic cleaning that Trump himself adopted earlier this 12 months.

At 1:23 a.m., after the rally concluded, Posobiec retweeted an X account referred to as TrebelWoe, which belongs to Ryan Dumperth, a neo-Nazi podcaster from Vermont.

“The energy on the righteous side of this battle isn’t rhetorical heat from the impending election,” Dumperth tweeted in regards to the Madison Square Garden rally (which it doesn’t seem he attended). “This is a declaration of war against everyone responsible for the conditions we now suffer. This energy will rapidly become concrete action that changes the map, forever.”

“Soon,” Posobiec concurred.

News protection of Posobiec, who rose to on-line prominence by his blogs about “Game of Thrones,” usually leaves out his extremism. Posobiec claimed on his resume that he labored for CBS News and in intelligence for the Navy. An investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center, nevertheless, discovered that Posobiec by no means labored at CBS News, and though he labored in Navy intelligence, the navy later revoked his safety clearance.

Later, he grew to become one of many greatest promoters of “Pizzagate,” the conspiracy idea claiming Democrats have been operating a pedophile ring within the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor. Per a HuffPost investigationhe collaborated with a pair of neo-Nazis to supply a documentary about Seth Rich, a Democratic strategist whose unsolved homicide Posobiec and others falsely blamed on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Throughout this era, he maintained deep ties with different white supremacists and routinely posted racist and antisemitic memes on Twitter.

And simply after Trump received the presidential election in 2016, Posobiec introduced a “Rape Melania” signal to an anti-Trump protest in New York in an try to depict Trump’s detractors as belligerent sufficient to condone the sexual assault of his spouse.

In the following years, he emerged as one of many foremost MAGA propagandists, working for varied far-right information shops, being invited onto the principle stage of CPAC, showing throughout prime time on Fox News — all whereas publishing books together with “Unhumans.”

On Sunday, Posobiec posted pictures of himself with followers he met at Madison Square Garden, all of whom held up copies of his newest e-book: “Bulletproof: The Truth About the Assassination Attempts of Donald Trump.”

The e-book has already earned no less than one huge endorsement. On Oct. 25, Posobiec tweeted a video of him standing with Trump himself.

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“Jack’s a great guy,” Trump says. “He’s written a fantastic book. Everybody’s talking about it. Go get it. And he’s been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event, and we’re gonna turn it around and make our country great again.”

“Amen,” Posobiec responded, shaking Trump’s hand. “Thank you, Mr. President.”

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