The Current Situation

Stay away from Tampa Convention Center this weekend

Why? Because the right-wing student indoctrination group Turning Point USA is holding their Student Action Summit at Tampa Convention Center, and the base is coming out. And these days, with the mainstreaming of what used to be the conservative fringe, that means Nazis are showing up, and the organizers aren’t shooing them away.

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And to no one’s surprise at all, they’re DeSantis fans.

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Oh, and they’re blaming the Jews…

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For more, see. Creative Loafing’s article, Photos: Neo-Nazis gather outside Turning Point USA summit at Tampa Convention Center.

And before you say “No, this is the fringe,” let me disabuse of that false notion right now. This is the new mainstream, and it’s been part of the alt-right playbook for years now:

Joey deVilla

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  • I'm just grasping for hope here, but these drooling halfwits can't be *quite* mainstream yet, or they wouldn't be making such an effort to hide their faces in the photos.

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