Left-wing YouTuber “Vaush” has issued a borderline call to take up arms against the Trump regime and its supporters, labelling MAGA voters “a plague to this country” and saying that life in prison for members of the Trump admin would be “generous.”
In a recent video, Vaush—real name Ian Anthony Kochinski—calls for a wave of militancy leading to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the US like Reconstruction after the Civil War or de-Nazification in post-War Germany.
The video also features a series of chilling threats that suggest a genuine desire to see physical harm inflicted against members of the Trump administration and ordinary Trump supporters.
“We need to get militant and fast. They’re going to start disappearing US citizens, there are going to be bodies washing up on the shore. They’re going to build the camps. They’re going to try to do everything they can. The whole thing is like a loot-and-burn experiment.”
Vaush says that, because of the damage being caused to the country by the Trump administration, life in prison for its members would “generous.”
He goes on to outline how there needs to be a process of “de-MAGA-fication,” which does not involve “reconciliation” but instead brutal purges of Trump supporters at every level of society.
“De-MAGA-fication… there is not going to be reconciliation after this sh*t, man,” Vaush says.
“If you voted for Trump, if you were on board with any of this, you are a plague to this country, you’re a disease, you’re a criminal. And everyone involved in it… It’s not just political differences. It’s good and evil.”
Vaush adds that the Republican party can “never have political power again.”
“We cannot let the Republican Party bounce back from this.”
Vaush also invokes the Nuremberg Trials at the end of the Second World War, appearing to suggest that many Republican politicians deserve to be sentenced to death, as a number of notorious Nazis were.
“It’s pro-democracy to arrest people for destroying the country,” he adds.
Kochinski, 31, identifies as a “libertarian socialist.” He has a large audience on YouTube, with over 500,000 subscribers and 400 million total views for his videos on political topics, including debates with right-wing figures; video games; and pop culture.
Kochinski has courted controversy in various arenas beyond the political. He has faced intense scrutiny over his sexuality and views on pedophilia, in particular. In the past, he has defended the consumption of child pornography by saying “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.” During another stream he was caught with an open folder of “loli porn” on his desktop, “loli” being internet slang for pornographic drawings of children. He is a self-confessed “pansexual.”
