We aren’t back in the Weimar Republic, but the assault on the Holocaust Museum needs to be understood as a fascist maneuver aimed not just at the museum but at the White House as well. As a mild-mannered academic, I don’t like to think about Nazis in the American hinterland, nor ponder the unmentionable, but I want to trust that there are earnest officials in dark suits tracking fascists with guns should they approach government officials. These security personnel ought to be so thorough that they have monitored this posting as I edit it on-line-- another super-ego fantasy.
The eighty-eight year old man was giving his own version of a suicide attack, no doubt intended to send a message to the wrong people. A few years from now, we do not want to look back in order to reconstruct the resurgence of the American fascists, the gun fanatics who all supposedly signed up for the war in Iraq and therefore are no longer planning attacks on government buildings. We have apparently not exported all our terrorists to the Middle East.
We need to take our own native-born assassins seriously.
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