There is no correspondence between left and right on the one hand and pro- or anti-law enforcement on the other. We have seen extremely violent assaults on police by pro-Trump mobs seeking a coup d’etat at the US Capitol in 2021… mobs that included off-duty cops. Now we see Canadian rightists plotting to murder the Mounties. They use anti-masking and ant-vaxxing as flags of convenience to cover their attempts at a coup.
The fascists applaud racist murders by police, like the shootings of George Floyd, Amir Locke, and Breonna Taylor. But they also applaud racist murders by civilians, like the shootings of Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery. It’s not about the police or about the law, it’s about the racism.
Canadian fascists have no problem at all when the RCMP are attacking Wetʼsuwetʼen defenders at the Gidimt'en Checkpoint, but they cry “Nazi!” when they’re asked to safeguard their health and the health of others by getting a vaccination.
Our US fascists have no problem at all when militarized police are attacking a rally for Black Lives or water defenders at Standing Rock, but they cry “Nazi!” when Capitol police conduct a security check on an unlocked Congressional office.
The fascist right (and this includes increasingly large sectors of the official Republican Party) doesn’t support the police or law enforcement at all; they support racist violence.
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