Some are drawing an ominous analogy between Charlie Kirk and Horst Wessel [10], the early martyr of the Nazi cause. In Episode 296 [11] of the CounterVortex podcast [12], Bill Weinberg offers a more ominous analogy still: to José Calvo Sotelo [13], the Spanish fascist leader whose assassination [14] in 1936 provided the expedience for Generalissimo Franco's coup d'etat that initiated the Spanish Civil War [15]—and ultimately brought a decades-long dictatorship to Spain. Trump's declaration [16] of antifa [17] as a "terrorist organization [18]" since Kirk's assassination is an open acknowledgement of his fascist intent [19]. Fortunately, anti-fascist protesters are repudiating [20] Kirk, and the wave of racist terror [21] and anti-left reaction [22] now being unleashed coast [23] to coast [24].
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