{"id":6078,"date":"2017-05-02T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6078"},"modified":"2017-05-02T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:34:50","slug":"lurching-toward-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6078","title":{"rendered":"Lurching toward fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alt-Right is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/05\/02\/alt-right-hopes-to-organize-street-fighting-goon-squad-is-it-more-than-macho-posturing\/\" target=\"_blank\">organizing brownshirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kyle Chapman, known to his fans on the alt-right as \u201cBased Stickman\u201d for beating a leftist protester with a wooden stick at an early March pro-Trump protest in Berkeley, California, wants people to think he\u2019s tough. In late April Chapman announced on Facebook  his creation of a new group of right-wing street fighters, called the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (or FOAK), dedicated to \u201cdefense and confrontation\u201d in the streets. You could almost hear the chest-thumping right through the computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis organization is for those that possess the Warrior Spirit,\u201d Chapman wrote. \u201cThe weak or timid need not apply.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alt-Right is organizing brownshirts. Kyle Chapman, known to his fans on the alt-right as \u201cBased Stickman\u201d for beating a leftist protester with a wooden stick at an early March pro-Trump protest in Berkeley, California, wants people to think he\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6079,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078\/revisions\/6079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}