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