I will not be joining the state-mandated mourning on October 14 for the podcaster murdered in Utah two weeks ago.
Instead, I ask you to join me — and the thousands of others who refuse to bow to this charade — in rallying against racism and white supremacy on that same day. It is not accidental that the date chosen for this national spectacle falls on October 14, the birthday of George Floyd. That day should be spent honoring Floyd’s legacy, not sanctifying a man whose career was built on amplifying white nationalist talking points.
We have seen this playbook before.
In Nazi Germany, the death of Horst Wessel, a street brawler for Hitler’s movement, was weaponized into myth, elevated into a national day of mourning, and wielded as a cudgel to silence dissent.
His funeral became a rallying cry, a pretext for purging opponents and branding critics of the regime as enemies of the state.
Today, Trump is attempting to force America into its own Horst Wessel moment: canonizing a figure of the…
