They’re not real, of course.
The running joke has already become they are barely-disguised federal agents indulging in some rather lame propaganda, even as some members of rightwing defend both their realness and their aims.
Apparently they do community projects and stuff.
Regardless, they are not real. Even if they’re not literally all FBI agents – which we can’t actually rule out – they are a psy-op to some extent or another.
Just look at them. And you can just look at them, do you know why? Because they’re all over the press and social media.
This picture in particular has “gone viral”:
Creating the illusory threat of potential fascism on the fringes to distract from very real fascism already in the very centre of power.
“You see those guys? In the khakis waving flags about? They’re Nazis. That’s what fascism is, waving flags and doing wrong think.
“Us, the people who spy on you, lock you in your house, track your movements, restrict your speech and indoctrinate your kids, we’re not fascists. In fact, we’re protecting you from the meanie fascists and their heinous flag-waving ways.”
That’s the point of displays like the Patriot Front.
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