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Ron DeSantis ally Chris Rufo has close ties with ‘dissident right’ magazine

www.theguardian.com

Chris Rufo, a rightwing culture-war celebrity and close Ron DeSantis ally, has maintained a close relationship with IM-1776, a “dissident right” magazine that regularly showers praise on dictators and authoritarians, puffs racist ideologues, and attacks liberal democracy.

The outlet’s editors and writers – many of them so-called “anons” working under pseudonyms – have variously advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act; celebrated figures such as the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and the proto-fascist Italian nationalist Gabriele D’Annunzio; and advanced conspiracy theories about the Covid pandemic, and what they term the “regime”, a leftist power structure that they imagine unites the state, large corporations, universities and the media.

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"Mr. DeSantis, your ally Chris Rufo is attached to a magazine that praises the Unabomber. Do you believe the Unabomber deserves praise?"
-- Media with balls that doesn't exist.
- DeSantis would just find some way to blame the "woke" Left and how it's an attack on a strong conservative like Rufo, or some similar bullshit.
  This fuckhead governor of mine, that I obviously did not vote for, deflects any criticism, and would blame the "woke Left" if he stubbed his toe getting out of bed in the morning.
  Although it would be nice for the media to grill robot Ron, he would just cancel the interview or remove the reporter, or get his minions in the legislation to legislate the criticism away to make it harder on the media or some other fascist bullshit.
  
  He might, but the fact that no one even bothers to ask those sort of questions of politicians like him is a bigger issue because of course he has an ally with ties like that. That's just obvious.

I think he's also one of the Architects behind mom's for liberty but I could be wrong
- He's the main guy behind rebranding Critical Race Theory as a vague scary thing children are taught, so it would definitely be in his wheelhouse..

Ronnie don't care as long as it ain't "woke".

Such a shocker

..attacks liberal democracy.
What kind of reporting is this? There is no such thing as "liberal democracy" in my view. You either let people have a voice or you don't.
- The Guardian is a paper based in Manchester, England. Fairly certain that they do not mean "liberal" in the American sense meaning left-wing, progressive politics. They mean it in the classical sense meaning free.
  
  Ah, okay then. The phrasing seems odd to me.

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