The Illusion of Blame: Why Pointing at MAGA Extremists Misses the Deeper Truth
My fellow liberals, leftists, and snowflakes—brace yourself.
You may feel the urge to scroll past, defend your values, or mentally check out of this conversation. But I ask you to lean into the discomfort. Sit with it. Try—just try—to hear what I’m saying, not as an attack, but as a truth that needs space in our shared struggle.
Toward the end of many political commentaries these days, the blame is placed squarely on “MAGA extremists.” And yes—let’s be clear: what’s unfolding is unthinkable, pathologically violent, and undeniably fascist. But that is only half the story.
How Did We Get Here?
How did Amerikkka allow fascism, white nationalism, and Christian supremacy to rise so openly?
It didn’t happen in a vacuum. It was fed—systematically—by a bipartisan legacy of suppressing true resistance. Yes, including the Democratic Party. And yes, including many liberal communities that brand themselves as progressive safe havens.
For decades, the Democratic Party has maintained a war—not just against right-wing extremism—but against leftist movements. Through co-optation, policing, and the weaponization of “respectability,” they’ve become agents of controlled opposition. Behind the slogans and social justice branding lies a quiet demand: conform or be cast out.
The Weaponization of “Unity”
We are told to unify. But what they mean is: obey. Speak like us. Protest like us. Tone it down, dress it up, appeal to the moderates, make it palatable. Their version of unity is not rooted in mutual respect or shared liberation—it’s rooted in control.
When we don’t conform, we’re shamed, not just publicly—but silently, surgically. We are blocked from their groups. Shunned in their meetings. Removed from their listservs. Shut out of their campaigns and causes. They preach unity while silencing dissent and sanitizing resistance.
In truth, they don’t fear disunity. They fear what they can’t police.
The Left Devours Itself—And It’s Killing Us
There’s a growing trend among liberals and moderates to attack their own side—not over harm, but over aesthetics and etiquette. People are ridiculed not for compromising values, but for expressing resistance too loudly, too messily, too inconveniently.
We are told we’re “too intense,” “too radical,” or “hurting the cause.” We’re infantilized, pathologized, and pushed out—simply for refusing to conform to a strategy that has never protected us. Meanwhile, the most marginalized—Black, Indigenous, queer, disabled, poor, and trans voices—are constantly dismissed unless we code-switch or tone-police ourselves into digestible soundbites.
This behavior isn’t unity. It’s gatekeeping dressed up as strategy.
Resistance Isn’t Polite—and It Never Has Been
The liberal discomfort with unfiltered resistance is palpable. They want revolution without rage, change without confrontation. But liberation has never been handed over with a smile and a campaign ad. It’s fought for in the streets, in the margins, and in the mouths of those deemed “too much.”
If your idea of unity requires the most impacted to mute their truth and perform for your comfort, then that’s not unity. That’s assimilation. And it is dangerous.
We Don’t Need More Gatekeepers. We Need Each Other.
Those of us who have seen this coming—who’ve been radicalized, criminalized, and outcast for sounding the alarm—are still here. Still organizing. Still surviving.
We’ve forged bonds in the underground. Built communities rooted in care. And we continue, even when our resistance is co-opted and commodified by those who once dismissed us.
So if you’re serious about fighting fascism, it’s time to listen to those who have been in the trenches all along—not to control us, not to rebrand us—but to finally join us however you feel is your calling to do so.
We don’t need your permission. But we do need your integrity— and we do need your support.
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