71 years ago, at midnight, the French 2nd Armoured Division, spear-headed by the veterans of Spanish Republicans Army, the first to have struggled against Fascism, wheeled into the suburbs of Paris. 1500 nights of Nazi occupation came to a close.
Today, I think about our crypto-nazis: the openly fascist diatribes of exporting families and building walls, of cops who see black & brown faces as threats, shooting them arbitrarily under their charge; of symbols of hate flown high, like the Confederate flag, those who hypocritically hide behind an amorphous and undefined “southern culture;” of elitists who feel that 47% of the population will never be motivated to rise out of poverty; of...
