Woo hoo! Book number four and I finished it in March, I think. I just got around to getting the review on to the site’s docket. My public library had this too, saved some money. After reading Belew’s Bring the War Home, I thought this would be a good companion. See what a former intelligence guy’s take was versus an academic, both of which I respect. You may recognize the author if you waste time watching the now holier-than-thou Boomer Bill Maher’s sanctimonious bullshit which is now quickly becoming his audition tape for Faux News. I know Mr. Nance from a less odious source, Al Franken’s apologist podcast for the Biden ’24 camp. Lastly, you may have seen him on MSNBC as he has volunteered off/on with various volunteers fighting in Ukraine. He’s very lucky, a Black middle-aged American is a pretty obvious target for the Russian military to find and kill. Despite the topics we disagree on (Julian Assange’s fate and Wikileaks), I don’t want him to suffer an ugly fate.
Now about the book since I’ve established who the author is and TV shows agree on his credentials. Nance illustrates his case for why the people involved with the January 6th attack should be taken more seriously. Sure, the main wave were dumbasses and clowns but the ideology is quite serious and very, very dangerous. He gives a quick History on where, when and how about the Qanon Cult began or morphed into its current bat shit. The roots go all the way back to the Middle Ages when some idiot Christians claimed Jews killed children for their blood to undertake certain rituals. If you know anything about Judaism, it’s a religion that’s not big on substances capable of spreading sickness, e.g the ban on certain foods due to their questionable existence. I knew many of the Militia Nuts are repeating the same nonsense I remembered from the Nineties involving the UN, Black Helicopters and the non-existent New World Order attributed to the first Bush. I did like how he explained the sovereign-state crap which suckered Wesley Snipes into not paying his taxes.
If you read Belew’s book I mentioned before, you will see the overlap of the various movements allied with Trump and their long list of mostly imaginary fears. It’s no shock they have strong ties to the White Power Movements. What differentiates Kill from Bring is Nance’s more alarmist stance by emphasizing how this collection of the CosPlay Army, Neo-Confederates, American Nazis, Proud Boys, etc., have no qualms about murdering other Americans. He closes with the really sad revelation regarding an author I’ve read and had some respect for, Michael Scheuer, joining ranks with these traitors and home-grown terrorists. Several decades ago, he was in the CIA as an expert on Islamic terrorism and wrote a book called Imperial Hubris after Spurious George Bush launched his wars. That book argued why both parties were fighting al-Qeda all wrong. Today, he has thrown his lot in with the American Fascists and the executions of many citizens he just doesn’t like. Sickening. His brain is probably infected by an STD.
Is Nance correct? I lean toward yes. The Democratic Party has proven to be incompetent every time it has a majority or the White House or under Nixon 2.0, all three. I figure we’re living in the US version of the Weimar Republic before it transforms in the Republic of Gilead. Morons in the party leadership remain tone deaf to America’s ongoing problems of inequality initiated by St. Reagan and it’s impossible to tell if they’re this naive to think the Republicans will ever be reasonable. Bilary was a shit candidate who ran a shit campaign yet she and all her asshole defenders continue to blame Russia, Wikileaks and Bernie Sanders…never themselves with their “inevitable” campaign or how it was their fault from day one. They wanted Girth Vader to be the GOP candidate. They got it and still lost. Now we’ve had Grampa Brunch in the job, the economy could crater any day because he too is delusional, corrupt and fucking worthless. There’s a strong chance the old fart will lose given how a vast majority of Americans don’t want him for a second term, thus leading to many to sit out the election. The Fascists are enthused via their brainwashing so Trump could return and this time, he’ll purge everyone who isn’t kissing his fat ass and sic his followers on all opposition to him, violently. It’ll happen all thanks to the Democratic leadership being a bunch of craven, greedy old Boomer shit birds thinking they’re immune and the Left has nowhere else to go. And these morons helped create this mess.