The showwriters for The Boys had to get this explicit for right-wingers to get the picture.
And they still didn’t get it.
Stop making my show about an alt-right villain with a god complex polical libruls
“We are like Homelander, not the nazi lady!”
A growing number of people are getting really comfortable with the idea of being literal Nazis.
Well, not like it changed from before ww2. Well, maybe it did for the next 2 weeks.
That’s not true at all. For roughly 70 years, being fully fascist was very much a fringe thing that you’d be shunned by normal people for. Even the most callous paleoconservatives would categorically shun any Nazi or other openly fascist person.
Then decades of gradual and accelerating rightward drifting of the Overton Window (for which the Democrats’ ineptitude as the SUPPOSED opposition party bear a lot of the responsibility) and normalization of outright lying as a political strategy inevitably led to a fascist demagogue like the Mango Mussolini and now fascism is the new mainstream “conservatism”.
