For a conservative Tom Nichols is a good guy I listen to, and like many Republicans with principles left he’s been frantically sounding the alarm and warnings for what a possible second Trump presidency would be like, basically the end of American democracy with consequent wrenching loss of freedom, liberty and rights.
As I have written many times–as does Mr. Nichols–the arrival of American fascism will not be a nuclear thunderclap that everyone instantly notices. The history of fascism takeover in many countries was gradual, it creeps on you, it can be easy to miss what’s happening in real time right in front of you.
That means sadly amusingly you, Mr. Nichols, the arrival of American fascism won’t be with a second Trump term, it’s already here. Don’t feel too bad, 95% of the souls reading this aren’t aware either.
Five majority justices on the Supreme Court were appointed and rammed through by Presidents who lost their elections but won in the electoral college. That stupendously gross breach of democracy has led to the totally predictable result that the Supreme Court is broken and flagrantly stomps on the democracy to enforce authoritarian, fascist rule.
White men in blue or purple States might not get it, but women in Florida and Arizona do, get pregnant and you’re no longer American, the State ruthlessly decides your fate. If that has a searing smashing effect on you and your baby’s life just go to hell, American fascism has taken your life rights and doesn’t give a damn, female.
Again with sad amusement I noticed after another recent grossly disgusting performance of the Supreme Court–this time the oral arguments on the absolute joke of Presidential immunity–many journalists are finally getting it too, oh…my…god, in just a few weeks it will be official law the United States cannot prosecute an obvious insurrectionist criminal fascist trying to be President again because the busted Supreme Court enabled him.
Doesn’t that sound like the end of the rule of law and America, Tom? Of course the problem here is that it’s not truly super official until the decision is handed down, but the flaunt of fascism actually occurred when the Court took the case. See how it can creep on you, sir?
So in this very present second of our time with the country we’ve very quickly watched the Court smash women’s life rights, approval of LGBT persecution and serious degradation of State regulatory functionality. To do it a broken Court flagrantly shat upon the rule of law and stare decisis with horribly painful clownish immaturity and spitting mean defiance.
The Judicial Branch is one of the three main branches of the formerly famed American government, if it’s broken and busted that means the country and government is, the America we knew and grew up with is simply gone. Okay, Mr. Nichols?
Of course in the unlikely event Trump does get a second Presidency the creep of fascism will be utterly guaranteed and accelerate, but the real creep missed by most here is the base fact Trump is running and has any chance at all, a real functioning democracy never would have allowed it.
God it burns as I watch the orange blob sputter and spit his fascism every day to see the democracy gone, but oy vey my own life isn’t a bucket of fun and laughs either, I never expected to watch the democracy be lost in a creep, my time with the country hasn’t gone so well, bummer.
At this point as a writer and American it’s my duty to offer hope and a path forward, and it’s very true voting for Joe Biden and Democrats is the only way to get American democracy back, but another lesson of history always tells us how hard it will be. The ancient throwback way of waiting for Justices to die will take a long time–if it can be done at all–and how many of our women will suffer terrible unnecessary trauma in the interim?
No one has defended the American little people more than I, we’re not stupid, but my patience has been growing thin lately with all the oblivious uncomprehension about the creep and the mental flabbiness with politics, Mr. Nichols and I are brothers on this.
We need a good journalism corps to seriously help in these confusing, distracting times and as usual we’ve endured the awful milktoast corporate timidity. Please, American journalists, please stop with the enabling and treating this like a normal election, the fascism creep is on here and if Trump wins we are guaranteed on our way.
One would think they’d get it for the good and heritage of the country, but they’re even oblivious as to what could happen to them personally. The American creep of fascism is totally infatuated with Vladimir Putrin, US journalism corps, if you continue enabling the creep will reward you with being shot and thrown out of a window, bummer.