This thread found via Rocco Castoro is quite an interesting one.
Leah McElrath, if she is really using her real name and picture, is running a rehashed Louise Mensch Op from 2016-2017 where she is calling out people as Nazis that aren’t Nazis. Same schtick Nicole Chenelle and Matt Donovan were at before going on lock after I pointed out they were mutual follows in close contact with Doug Stewart, Will Welna, Fred Brennan and various other known far-right extremists, spoiling their false narratives of being “anti-Nazi” while amiably consorting with those they called out as Nazis via mutually followed locked accounts.
Here is the beginning tweet that started this thread by retweet, with Leah going beyond the popular fascist opinion to full blown Nazism, instead of the correct political ideation of Populism to describe this intentionally offensive cartoon meant to be a political anti-vaccine offering.
First, where the hell does she come up with the top part being eco-fascism?
Liberals have been fighting for clean air and water for decades. Books are a good thing, something actual fascists are banning in droves depriving libraries of carrying anything that is racially or culturally uncomfortable. Free-range parenting, the freedom to have churches but to instead take the family of seven to the park, to eat chemically free food, is something most Liberals would strongly desire. That being said, this is clearly a rightwing propaganda piece with subtle messaging such as “ a man” and “a woman” indicating the cartoonist has a very closed mindset. Had they left those two terms out, it wouldn’t be so obvious that the above ground illustration is a Populist message, something I have great disdain for regardless if that ideology comes from the far left or the far right.
The below ground stuff is very disturbing, with anti-vaccine, and the oft repeated centuries old mantra of eat the rich coming to mind. Blue shirt skeleton is Bill Gates, a frequent target of Bob’s anti-vaccine hysteria. This isn’t genocide, rather Bob’s interpretation of the asinine conspiracy that the vaccine kills people, not COVID. Looking at most of Bob’s cartoons, one will find he is very, very anti-vaccine, anti-Boris Johnson, anti-Biden, and anti-Trudeau. He is definitely rightwing, but still Populism describes the ideology, not fascism.
That underground portion also has a British paper, and a cell phone alluding to people being tracked (like Rocco used for the McAfee betrayal Op) flagging this as British Populism. If it was American, you’d bet all those kids would be running around with AK-47s because US left-right Populism is much further along the path to achieving full-blown fascism than the British versions of it, thanks in part to the Ops work.
Populism is a two-sided political orientation with Bernie Sanders, AOC, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump all being specific examples, appealing to the disaffected masses on the political edges, while demonizing the elite. Occupy Wallstreet, the Tim Pool Op, was a populist movement, something again, Rocco Castoro with his far right and far left extremist friends, knows a thing or two about. So too was MAGA. Neither the left nor the right version of Populism is compatible with good political governance, which is why I wind up calling out all of the Ops infecting national discourse and running amok with repeated performative street violence, intended for the cameras.
Is Leah herself one?
Given the ties between left-right Populism and how the Nationalist-Socialist “Na-zi” party rose to power grabbing the two fringe extremes, it is just as fair a question to pose as hers was to Bob. The Nazi Party conjoined the left-right groups, overthrew German social and political order via planned anarchy, then gradually transitioned to full-blown fascism behind a cult of leader dictatorship to crush its own roots establishing order. Anarchy always proceeds the populace desire to have a strong-arm authoritarian leader.
I’ll note that Bob’s calling Leah a “non-entity” is as equally offensive as her calling his work Nazism. Both are wrong. Neither Bob nor Leah are Nazis. They are both people, and both politically Populist. Leah is an extremist left-Populist op who advocates anarchy with her platform, and Bob is a political cartoonist that draws far-rightwing Populist conspiracy-laden pieces meant to offend, make him money while driving engagement and conversations.
Here is the cartoon again, this time with his signature, that should not have been removed in the first place.
The primary intent of this right-Populist piece being Bob’s political stance of anti-vaccination, anti-government regulation, and anti-control. That isn’t much different than that of the left-Populist-Anarchists that want to achieve some of the same things by removing all government.
Here is another funny he drew that was likely intended to make fun of the pro-vaccine crowd, that ends up being hilarious versus the anti-vaccine conspiracists he typically doodles for.
In conclusion, vaccines save lives from COVID. Populism is dangerous, whether it comes from the left or the right. Lastly, not everyone the Ops calls a Nazi is remotely a Nazi, more or less using that term as an attack meant to cause targets they disagree with trauma.