We should thank Trump - he showed us who the fake conservatives are

People talk about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and how leftists go crazy with fake news about Trump; but few people talk about the other side of the coin - something I’m going to call “Trump Fanboy Syndrome”. TFS for short. Is it catchy? I don’t know.

One thing I do know, is that as Trump continues to become more openly fascistic and insane in his second term, it’s becoming increasingly easy to spot the fake conservatives who continue to support and defend his actions, despite their obvious immoral nature or the fact that they run counter to almost every one of their stated values (or at least the ones they claimed they had a couple of years ago).

For example, how many fake conservatives turned against the 2nd amendment after the Alex Pretti murder a few days ago? Like the FBI director saying insane crap like “no one who wants to be peaceful shows up to a protest with a firearm”.

As if someone’s 2nd amendment rights to protect themselves and others can be suspended just because they attended a protest and filmed some cops abusing people. Peaceful people absolutely can and should carry firearms everywhere they go. That’s how they can keep themselves and their families safe. Disarmament is both unconstitutional and unconscionable. And protests are often dangerous places, so having the ability to defend yourself makes perfect sense.

The idea that mere possession of a firearm implies criminal intent runs counter to everything this country is founded on.

But it wasn’t just politicians, it’s the comments on social media too. For instance, in this downright demonic video by a YouTube former-cop turned celebrity Brandon Tatum, where the ex-cop celebrates the murder of a protestor, there are comments like this:

What is that, if not naked fascism-worship? If this were WWII these people would be telling anti-government protestors “you shouldn’t have been protesting the concentration camps, it’s your fault you were even there. My chance of dying is 0 because I stayed home.”

Or imagine if the brave men and women who sheltered Jews and hid them from Nazi government investigations were told “well, you wouldn’t have been executed if you had just not interfered with the government investigation and handed over the Jews. Stay home and don’t interfere with the SS.”

A “government investigation” means nothing. Governments routinely investigate, raid, assault, kidnap (“arrest”), and murder people for things like smoking pot or owning the wrong configuration of a firearm. The average American unknowingly commits about 3 felonies per day, just peacefully going about their life. The word “felony” has lost all meaning.

America as a country was built by brave people who stood up to the government. A true patriot is someone who protects liberty against tyrants. The mental gymnastics required to call Federal Agents assaulting people “patriots” is beyond insane. What exactly are these conservatives conserving? In what universe is an ever-growing police state patriotic or beneficial to Americans?

These people are immoral, pathetic cowards. And these are exactly the kind of people that evil regimes throughout history (like the Nazis and Communists) would have depended on for support and justification.

In the video, Brandon repeatedly says things like “the officers are just doing their job” and “it’s a felony to interfere with an investigation”, describing Alex Pretti trying to protect a woman from being assaulted by ICE goons.

Let’s be clear here: there is no justifiable reason to knock innocent people over on the street. Whether you call them protestors, agitators, or anything else. There is no justifiable reason to pepper spray someone who is protecting a woman from being assaulted by a deranged psychopath who happens to be wearing a uniform.

These people chose this job. They’re not “just following orders”. They chose to put on body armor, grab a gun, put on a “badge” that gives them legal immunity, and then go out and physically assault and murder people. This isn’t something they have to do. There are plenty of perfectly normal jobs in the world where you can mind your own business and not be roped into state-sanctioned murder.

Putting on a badge and uniform changes nothing. The morality of your actions is still based on the actions themselves. You don’t magically get immunity just because some higher-up psychopath told you to commit a crime. And protecting oneself from assault by a uniformed psychopath (aka Federal Agent) is not a felony in any kind of sane moral system, regardless of what the U.S. government claims when it gives these cops immunity.

The idea that Alex Pretti deserved to be executed because he may or may not have tried to reach for his pistol after being assaulted and tackled to the ground by a dozen psychopaths is a complete perversion of morality, and the people who believe this are just as much a part of the problem as the psychopaths in uniform enforcing Trumps’s orders.

If those people weren’t wearing badges, the entire narrative would be different. The right-wing headlines would read: “Man murdered by gang of criminals.”, or “Gang executed man after he tried to protect a woman.”

Here’s a tip: if your entire interpretation of what is right or wrong changes based on the uniform someone is wearing, you might as well have no morals.

At least now we know who the fake conservatives are.