Yes, I got called a brown shirt because I'm a conservative and let it be known I have conservative views, and I kinda lost it. No, I did not engage in physical violence like your typical Leftists like Alec Baldwin, but my mouth got the better of me.
I started in on them.
"I'm sorry, do I self identify as a Socialist like Bernie Sanders?"
"Has Trump and the GOP invaded any sovereign countries like Libya recently?"
"Has Trump and the GOP engaged in genocide? Have they advocated genocide, like in the slaughter of over 50 million unborn children since Roe vs. Wade?"
"Did they start concentration camps by locking children in cages at the US border like they did while Obama was President, and then use the pictures to blame Trump? Did he lock people in camps because of their race, like FDR did?"
When I was done, I thought they were going to punch me.
And yes, it felt good.
This kind of terminology is regularly thrown around. I can't even imagine how a Black Conservative must feel. They can't be labelled a nazi, so I imagine they are just labelled "sympathizers" or the like. Insulting that patriotic, Pro-Americans must deal with this.
I will say, there are elements of the right which are fascist and radical, akin to the far left, I have no use for them. We have MANY such "conservatives" in Canada. These are people who are intellectually challenged and who adore power simply because they are able to wield it. I wouldn't call them Brownshirts, but I regularly call them cowards, that's what they are in my eyes.
I believe if you completely accept bad ACTIONS and RESULTS without considering fault, than you're radical. Worse, if you don't listen and consider others opinions. In todays culture, the intolerance of different ideas is almost exclusively the purview of the alt-left. Doesn't mean there aren't crazy Righties, but they are being drowned out by the radical left, that's for sure.