What is their name?

I looked at what they are. See what you think.

It is key that we agree on what we face. What do you call them? The clowns? Everybody agrees, right?

Wrong!

There is no common name for what is our common enemy. That alone says we are splintered as a fighting force, and we cannot focus, or zero, our sights. Why is this so bad? An entire army cannot focus its sights.

Why do we need to do that? You can be sure that Trump is a manic, traitorous neo-Nazi cult leader orchestrating a neo-Nazi shitshow. He follows the known path to dictatorship, but January 6, 2021, was way more than the 1928 Munich Beerhall Putsch. There was a 4-year lull. Then the purges began there, as they will here this month after our 4-years of Biden.

Anti-critical race theory ring a bell? Book burning ring a bell? Xenophobia ring a bell? Nazi doctrines are currently in play, but the Nazis are long gone; hence, neo-Nazis are at work. We need to take their neo-Nazi militant force, with their robber barons, down.

Appeal was generated for this popular neo-Nazi demagogue, Donald Trump, and promoted through a fake persona on a reality TV show. The demagogue was not a strong authoritarian, but clearly racist, a sexual predator, a fraudster, among a few other things. He is a fake. He simply followed the strongman playbook.

Trump solicited support of hierarchical working culture, mostly where allegiances are conservative, Christian, and nationalistic, the same as Adolf Hitler did. He courted a coalition with angry speeches of how each group was victimized. I have never seen anything like it except in film of Hitler. Hitler practiced his speeches with photographers, to be rousing.

“Victimized. You there! You can’t say Merry Christmas”. One demagogue after another tries. Hitler knew his speaking ability was his gift.

Trump brought marginalized groups together, one by one. He courted each telling that group what they wanted to hear. Trump sought the groups that he could convince that they were victims. Those were groups of the disaffected: those “victimized” by immigration, those “downtrodden” by others receiving welfare, those “disavowing” others their own right to choose their own pathways, those hellbent to force their authoritarian will on others. All of this was Nazi doctrine.

The Nazi Party was banned in 1922-1923. It was reestablished in 1924 and went through 3 elections. never achieving a majority vote. After the Enabling Act was passed in 1933, it was the only party allowed in Germany until it was banned again in 1945.

I lived in Germany from 1962 to 1964, during my junior high school years. I see what is so common between secular and religious groups here and banned Nazi groups there. The problem is the groups here do not know what they are actually representing. If you told them they are espousing Nazi doctrine and are hence a neo-Nazi, they will be stunned. I advocate stunning, in the face.

What else are these white nationalists? What else are these evangelical Christian nationalists? What else are these racists? What else are these paramilitary survivalist zealots? What else are these xenophobic crusaders? What else are these misogynists? Neo-Nazis. They make up the disaffected on the fringe of society, each an individual group of little political import or power; but, what do we call them as a grouping? Why do we need that answer?

Assimilated, the disaffected are a force with which to reckon. The groups begin to feed with each other, whipping themselves into a frenzy. Their feeding frenzy won them the 2024 election. It could have been worse. Time and again Trump courted the black community. He failed in that every time. The black community is too experienced with white demagogues. Thank God! We have a base in the black community.

A hate monger has assimilated his following. That is what Adolf Hitler did. Key among those are the looney and the obedient followers, rather than true leaders. That should have been his zenith, but he directly courted the other groups and made deals he cannot keep. His groupings swarm only in a circular echo chamber feeding on a protein-less diet of hate-filled, narrowly focused propaganda while chanting in unison vile mantras. As a grouping, they failed in their Jan. 6th insurrection while shouting, “Hang Mike Pence!” Fine people.

Now they have rebooted. What are they?

THEY ARE…

There is no name. Aha. You see the problem that I see? They are many groups with diverse names; however, we must give them a common name because they are a common enemy. And that is where we fail. We cannot develop a common understanding and a clear message without a definitive name for this common enemy. Our jingles won’t rhyme.

Every pundit has their own moniker for them. That says very clearly that we are in disarray with no clear message. Everyone has their own fav. A gazillion different monikers. How am I as a marketing guru able to make a jingle with 15 different monikers? It cannot be done. 

Solutioning. It was Bill Evans, the best-ever jazz pianist, that said it is an imperative for the common good for there to be sympathy (or buy-in) to the key harmony or theme. Each must bend to the common good. That was his take on the most essential ingredient for a successful jam session. Total buy-in. And did he help do one? Yes, the best ever.

Bill Evans named the key ingredient on the insert liner to Miles Davis’s classic album “Kind of Blue”. That album was done in one take. Miles explained and played to each player the common theme he had in mind. Canonball Adderly, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jimmie Cobb, with Miles Davis. They all used that initial theme in their riffs to create jazz’s most famous album. And likewise I believe we all need this same SYMPATHY for the cause to get our act TOGETHER. One moniker. Please. 

They are a diverse amalgamation of relatively small groups of those disaffected for one reason or another. In aggregate, they have great size but no real name.

Steve Schmidt on 9/7/2024 called them Nazis. He is very, very close, but incorrect. Nazis were party members in Germany. That party was banned in late 1945. They are neo-Nazis today.

Let us take a look at naming dilemma. One good pundit liked the term "batshit crazy", which actually emerged from “bats in the belfry”. The revisionist term “batshit crazy” is a more colorful and cute way to convey the same idea, emphasizing more intensity in the madness. Cute. Ha ha. I don’t see the humor. This was the best we came up with before the election of 2024.

Sorry, but I hold that “batshit crazy” is a weak phrase without the requisite malice that is needed to address the existential threat we as a nation face. That would be the two neo-Nazi extremists that commandeered the U.S. 

How serious is it? Insurrection-serious. A traitor in bed with Putin-serious. A spy selling national defense secrets to our enemies-serious.

The insurrection looks serious to me. So many ignore this now that it is easy to see the brainwashing and the denialism. I hate to say delusional, but willful blindness is not forgivable. Many of these insurrectionists went to jail.

Their transition plan has no staff. Why? Let me tell you why. Because Project 2025 is the blueprint and that outlines their staffing plan. That serious. The Project 2025 brownshirts are handpicked and ready to move into every Federal agency on Day One. That serious. Their hand-picked brownshirts did not just fall out of a coconut tree. The Project 2025 brownshirts will move quickly to fire all dissenters.

There will be no immediate way back. It is SERIOUS. All caps. Boldface. SERIOUS. That is why I feel that cute, ha ha terms do not cut the mustard. Who will you be fighting? Who will your cohort be fighting. Name it so that we call all use the same name for the enemy. The Allies needed a single enemy, an Axis to fight.

As a term, “shitshow” is close, but still does not have enough malice. I feel like it is time to take off the kid gloves and get real serious and stern. What is a good way to address this? Shitshow needs an adjective, just as “batshit” is to “crazy”; however “batshit” has no negative connotations. Bullshit does. Batshit is useless, thank you very much.

So I thought on this long and hard. I made a list of possible monikers to get to the heart of the matter, and that will show how hard I have thought on this. It is critical to our messaging going forward. We must hit the messaging hard, succinctly. And dead-on accurately.

I sought accuracy. I sought stark reality. I am at heart a provocative ass, as I told you. Actually, a noted pundit told me I was. So, I want an in-their-face moniker that they have to face up to. They have to come to terms with who they are. Not me. Henry Ford did. So did Charles Lindbergh. Both were Nazi sympathizers. 

I made my list of possible monikers and terms trying to get a grip. When I was exhausted of my supply, I reviewed my list. I picked two favorite monikers. Here is my list. 

A. “neo-Nazi shitshow”. 

B. “fascist shitshow” 

C. “shitshow fascists” 

D. “fascist bullshitshow” 

E. “fascist crazy”

F. “fascist crazies”

G. “bullshit+crazy” 

H. “bullshitshow?

I. “the Trump bullshitshow” 

J. “shitshow crazy”

K. “Shitshow wackos”

L. “Shitshow crazies”

M. “fascist wackos”

N. “neo-Nazi wackos”

O. “wacko dipshits”

P. “wacko crazies”

Q. “wacko neo-Nazis“

R. “wacko weirdos“

S. “fascist weirdos”

T. “neo-Nazi weirdos“

U. “weirdo wackos“

V. I lost V. Has anybody seen V?

W. ”weirdo crazies“

X. ”crazy weirdos”

Y. ”shitshow weirdos“

Z. ”weirdo neo-Nazis“

Of the above, I like S and T, repeated below for expediency. 

S. “fascist weirdos”

T. “neo-Nazi weirdos“

I have only used “neo-Nazi weirdos“ since I came up with this list of monikers. It is the truth if you ask me. I cannot say Nazi as that is the old German nationalist party name, and no one signed up. They follow the creed; hence, neo-Nazi.

I know that my one moniker will be too in-your-face for many. I know calling your brother a neo-Nazi weirdo won’t fly in many airspaces, and it will piss off your mom. I know I must have sympathy to the cause of coming to a single moniker, so I may have to give up my fav. I will be sympathetic and use “S: fascist weirdos” if we can come to an agreement.

We all have to sing the same song, at any rate.  How does this message sound?

Remove neo-Nazi weirdos from elected office.

Let me know. Can I get a little sympathy here? Please. We can pick and chose one term to begin the snowball. One at a time, we can get the snowball rolling. We can share this plea. If our voices become loud through singing the same song, a DJ in Philly will start playing it. (Buddy Holly and Runaround Sue comes to mind.)

If you think the battle for the Nation is a responsibility, share this message where you think it might help this cause. We have little time to build the coalition.