The racist Florida shooter’s ideology extends to ordinary people

It's not just extremists who hold the views expressed in his manifesto

On Saturday, Ryan Palmeter, a 21-year-old gunman, entered a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, and executed 52-year-old Angela Carr, 19-year-old AJ Laguerre Jr, and 29-year-old Jerrald Gallion. All three victims were Black Americans. This shooting comes on the heels of an even larger mass shooting of Black Americans last year, in Buffalo, New York, where 18-year-old Payton Gendron murdered 10 people.

In less than two years, two young white men have committed two mass murders of Americans motivated by an explicit desire to kill Black people.

Are you a fascist?

Yes, fascism is one of the only political ideologies that will unite Whites against the replacers. Since that is what I seek, calling me a fascist would be accurate.

Jason Stanley is professor of philosophy at Yale University, and the author, most recently, of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them