So long as victims are nonwhite “I thought I understood gun culture. But I didn’t,” writes John DeVore at Medium. It took a while to sink in, DeVore explains. Today he just feels naive. “It’s not about liberty or personal protection. It’s certainly not about tyranny. It’s about control. Strength. Boots, smashing faces.” The Republican Party — once the party of business and law and order — now exists to fight for a future where white heterosexual Christians are firmly in charge of American society. And they will fight dirty if they have to. Because “they” are coming for you, “the liberals, the Blacks, the Jews. The drag queens want to steal your children. Have you bought a gun today?” The valorization of Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Perry was deeply unsettling for DeVore. But Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott’s intentions on pardoning Perry (allegedly spurred on by Fox News host Tucker Carlson) was DeVore’s “ah-ha moment.” Perry was convicted this month of murdering a Black Lives Matter supporter. Twentieth Century fascism, like modern terrorism, is a nihilistic political multi-level marketing scheme. At the top of the pyramid sits a comfortable old man, like Carlson or Abbott, who benefit from the work of young, hungry young men willing to exterminate whoever they’re told is vermin. Men like Abbott and Carlson are eager to attract recruits. So, of course, Abbott would try to pardon Daniel Perry. It’s a message to other hateful, lonely, angry men: “stand back and stand by.” On the heels…