Part II: Ben Hart, the Breakdancing Bitcoin Shill
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Like thousands of Elon fanboys and Russian trolls, Ben Hart is tweeting about bloodbaths this week.
Under the handle @BenHart_Freedom, the son of Jeffrey Hart is protesting the MAGA-memed “bloodbath hoax.” The hoax is evidently being perpetrated by the vile media against the victim of so, so many hoaxes: Donald Trump.
The rightwing’s tryhard campaigns keep metastasizing; there’s no use stopping for them. (George Conway—a one-time imperious conservative who, like Jeffrey Hart, gave MAGA the heave-ho—says that Trump’s threat of a bloodbath is of course part of a pattern: “he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil.”)
On Ben’s website, Ben Hart Official Site, the younger Hart has given MAGA the opposite of the heave-ho. He’s given it a bear hug. What’s more, he appears to want to make MAGA seem like a natural outgrowth of his father’s conservatism, which—as we saw in Part I—is a hard case to make. Jeffrey left the GOP behind twenty years ago.
In his Twitter profile, Ben Hart appears in old photos with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. There’s also the golden-sunset cover of a self-published book, “Bitcoin: Your Off-Ramp from the Corrupt Political System and Protection from Economic Collapse.” Got it.
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