It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Akumaizer 3.
Funny how Muir's declarations of how things oughta be are very vague on what that oughta is. Oh, he knows what he wants, white guys like him--and only white guys like him, those with different opinions are just more of the wreckers--running things. But what that looks like--he's vague on that, because he really has no idea. He wants his kind to win, but he doesn't really know what winning is.
This is the problem that fascists face--their brand of reactionaryism is always very odd, and leaves them imagining some eternal ancient true version of their nation that never existed, and never could exist. Their plan to get there? Brutality and awfulness. It never works. But sometimes they get to commit some atrocities, before the whole hideous structure breaks down.
From what you can remember, at what point did you feel comfortable labeling Muir as a fascist? Was it gradual or was there a red line crossed that made you say "Okay, yeah. He's genuinely a fascist."
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting question, especially because it has to be remembered, I experienced DbD in an interesting fashion, both reading through the old strips while keeping track of the present ones where Muir was already at a pretty bad place.
DeleteSo, in a very real sense, it was both at once. Muir at the present (2009, by the way) was making the alarm bells ring--Muir in the past went from the occasional throwaway comment that raised an eyebrow to nastier and more blatant ones.
Interestingly enough, looking back now, the transition really starts post-2006. Up to that point, Muir's goosestepping side was less prominent, not because it wasn't there, but because, as I keep noting, he was convinced then that the country was going the way he liked, and was always going to do so. Almost as soon as it was made clear that no, he could lose, Muir began to rant about internal enemies and sabotage, while things like immigrants and how Blacks didn't vote the way they should shifted from the occasional strip to constant rants. Again, my dictum of 'he becomes more and more what he always was' sums it up.
To continue--what's happened since then has been the eradication of any pretense. There was a time, in that early period, where I felt a person could in good faith disagree with me on the topic, and feel I was going overboard and simplifying thing. By the last Obama period that became difficult, and during the Trump years... well, at the point, it reached a sort of critical mass, where there really wasn't much you could do. Muir kept saying what he was saying, with less and less to hide it.
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