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The Buffalo shooter's manifesto makes it clear that he was radicalised on reddit /r/AgainstHateSubreddits.

And it's not some Deep Web site or secret Groomercord. It's not from other /r/AgainstHateSubreddits posters or from Putin.

It's important to understand that none of this rhetoric is new; it's been mainlined into Republican reading materials, think tanks, PACs, and policies for a generation.

I have two books at hand right now, published in the 1980's, that call for "political revolt" - one by a group called Liberty Lobby called "Conspiracy against Freedom", which in its opening paragraph paraphrases Joseph Goebbels' Der Jude. Liberty Lobby was influential in Republican politics in the 1960's and 1970's, and spawned (among other groups) the National Alliance (White Identity Extremists), the Institute for Historical Review (Holocaust denialists), support of White Citizen's Councils, and their long-running newsletter platformed open anti-Semitism. They co-published early Focus on the Family talking points in their newsletter - one notable one fearmongers about whether "Ma Bell" was employing lesbians!

Another "Christian Revolt Long Overdue - Toward American Freedom from Aliens", which is one of the direct parents of "The Great Replacement" talking points pushed by Tucker Carlson & which rhetoric was cited by the Buffalo shooter. This book appeals to an un-laundered polemic vilifying Jewish people as being responsible for Bolshevism, Communism, and the genocidal atrocities of the Soviet Union. This from-the-1950's anti-Semitic, anti-Black, pro-KKK material is the material being referred to whenever Tucker Carlson and other Fox News commentators - and their Republican audience / Internet Commentator army - refer to "Cultural Marxism".

I sourced these books from the estate sale of the library of a Texas Republican politician. They are just two of a small selection of the material I acquired from that estate sale and what I acquired was a small fraction of the library. They are a drop of sewage in the sewer pipe that is the American "conservative" political "philosophy".

The Buffalo mass murderer's views are not new material. They've been fed to Republicans for a generation, and their political spokespeople are just now dusting it off and cherry-picking the least nauseating parts again, hoping no one would say where it came from, until they got their power without checks or balances.