This is a rise of reactionaries that admire some fascist aesthetics and positions, not fascist themselves. There is no left for them to fight. It is liberals vs. liberals vs. liberals with the more right wing ones capitalizing on neoliberals’ unpopular policy outcomes.

All of the liberals will come for us when there is crisis. They often already do, it is just normalized as the “criminal justice system”. See: Germany’s crackdown on criticizing Israel or supporting Palestinian liberation.

It is a good idea to be prepared to flee if you do any kind of left work. It is a better idea to do this as part of an org, to go through threat models and preparations with your org, to identify where you would go and to begin building relationships with people in those nations. If you do international work and go to spicy locations using proper precautions, you will learn useful skills for moving around and hiding your plans.

Don’t just focus on the farther-right liberals. The first group to come after you could just as easily be mainstem left liberals. Scratch a liberal…