I didn’t see a post about this so just a quick diary to alert everyone to the rapid spread of fascism in TN. While corporate media is obsessing with ridiculous wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump traveling to New York for his well deserved arrest, the super-majority of Republicans are going full fascism in Tennessee.
Last week, TN Republicans offered thoughts and prayers for the mass shooting and shut down the efforts of Democratic Representatives to talk about gun violence. As students protested in the halls, three Democratic Reps took to the House Well to disrupt Republicans turning a blind eye to the epidemic of gun violence.
Today, TN Republicans have stripped these three Democrats of their committees, sub-committees, turned off their microphones and security badges and are going to hold a vote to expel them.
These are elected officials. They have a right to speak truth to power, to represent their constituents. Republicans are going full fascist by silencing them.
Thousands of TN students are peacefully marching to the TN Capitol in mass again today — which TN Republicans are calling an insurrection worse than Jan 6. It’s Orwellian.
This is not democracy. This is dictatorship. This is more important than watching Trump get a mugshot. This is where Republicans are going, removing Democrats from elected positions.