Christopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.

Rufo, a Manhattan Institute fellow who has been a hugely influential figure in DeSantis’ culture war policies in Florida, did not disagree with the sentiments. Instead he commended speakers for their “thoughtful points” and presenting the discussion as a model fo

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    341·
    9 months ago

    In closing the discussion, Rufo credited speakers with raising “some provocative points on all sides, some thoughtful points on all sides”, and told listeners: “I think there is a room for engaging the dissident right and the establishment right. I think we need to have a bridge between the two and engage in thoughtful dialogue.”

    What a piece of shit. His wishy-washiness is as bad as the other guy’s blatant Nazism.

    • unoriginalsin@lemmy.worldAfaraf
      15·
      9 months ago

      He’s not being wishy-washy. He agrees with Haywood. He’s trying to pull the conservative core into a white-nationalist-based class war and bring about the full-blown Nazification of America.