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We’ve heard a lot post-Obama about how Nazism just gained a foothold in the U.S.. Nary a tea-bag protest can occur without a least a few hundred pictures of Obama with the famous Hilter mustache, and every time the health care debate comes up, non-teabaggers all have to sit through long rants about how “government controlled health care” is really secretly Nazi Germany all over again.

I’ve rolled my eyes to most of this stuff. It’s infuriating, yes, but everybody has their rhetoric.

Until I saw the following video about how Neo-Nazi parties are holding their own protests–only this time the protests are against immigrants:

As if these protests weren’t bad enough–word has it that the leader of the Nazi organization is getting support from various media organizations–and even more specifically, a media organization that many in the Republican party find respectable enough to contribute to:

Otherwise, they need to own the fact that a sitting Republican congresswoman is a contributor to a website that promoted a neo-Nazi hate rally, promotion that included sharing Sam Johnson’s email address with those looking to get involved.

When politicians aren’t calling in to major media sites that endorse neo-Nazism and demanding that their essay’s be removed from the sites and promising that all future campaigning/essay writing has ended–it is little more than tacit approval of the message on the site’s message.

Considering how easily the Minutemen Project was accepted into the mainstream (due to the embracing of the organization by corporate news sources like Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan on MSNBC), this is a truly frightening development. The Minutemen have always been a violence based group, but actually attempted to distance itself from it’s own violence once the mainstream began to embrace it (causing several major splinters in the org). At the time, the organization knew that to be linked to open violence against immigrants would be to spell its doom.

Things have changed in the U.S., huh? When have the neo-Nazi’s *ever* been anything but a hate group? An openly violent hate group that has embraced violence as a core tenet since its inception? It’s worth noting as well, that original Nazism also began because of mainstream acceptance of what would’ve normally been recognized as nativist and extremest organizations.

And finally, the resurgence of neo-Nazism was predicted by those who work on anti-immigrant violence as late back as 2006.