Digby of Hullabaloo wrote recently that one awful legacy of the Trump presidency was the certain knowledge the Republican base likes their racism raw, real and defiant, that’s why those goons in Georgia enacted their Putin voter restrictions under a slave plantation painting.
Another criminal Trump psychological trait was and is instant reflexive lying, refute the truth or make up a fantasy on the fly for whatever occasion. Texas Governor Abbot took on the cue and instantly lied about how and why Texas energy grid failed, it was that liberal female AOC who did it.
Republican election cheating in gerrymandering and voter suppression are as American as apple pie, Trump’s vicious and relentless lying attempted election 2020 cheating thankfully didn’t work, but this terrible Republican tradition long predated him, North Carolina is now routinely cited as a failed Democratic state, gerrymandering cheating wrecked it.
Dave Neiwert of Daily Kos has pointedly said many times we are going nowhere as a country as long as Fox News relentlessly broadcasts “conservative” propaganda, Joseph Goebbels had nothing compared to Rupert Murdoch.
The American electoral mechanism is busted and has smashed the country apart this century with the two worst Presidents we have ever had, Bush and Trump. Currently there is no viable political path to fix it.
Donald Trump is going to walk on terrible felonies on obvious obstruction of justice, inciting a deadly riot and stepping on the Georgia election. American rule of law is a cruel joke.
The Republican Party continues in its writhing lying regression to nowhere, all this Party has is racism, slavish obedience to tax cuts and owning the libs, they’ve got nothing else. They believe in no principle, look to no future goal, care and maintain nothing, all they have is this pathetic whining the American Recovery Act won’t let them enact tax cuts with the new Federal money.
Worst of all in this terrible list of Republican regression is somehow the blithe trashing of base voting integrity, a democratic American vote might as well be an elephant turd for all they care, reverence for voting, little people and democracy mean nothing to them, that’s the real thrust of the new Georgia election law, obviate the democracy when you lose.
What is the purpose of this grossly offensive list? After enough elements are comprehended it hits you, this is total true fascism, the new American fascism for the 21st century. Scapegoating racism, reflexive lying, democracy mechanism cheating, rule of law failure and relentless propaganda, nothing could me more classically fascist.
Again, for the bazillionth time, mental health and human political Party state is not a static thing! You’re either moving forwards or backwards, the Republicans are in obvious screaming regression and getting worse every month. Everyone knows that if somehow Trump could have stolen election 2020 he would have, he frantically tried hard enough and the Republican Party just went along, oh my god, that’s how far they gone.
We came so very close to losing the democracy until President Biden was inaugurated. That’s why we keep seeing articles like How to Stop the Minority Rule Doom Loop and frantic calls everywhere to eliminate the filibuster, more and more citizens are becoming aware the election of President hasn’t stopped the Republicans from smashing the democracy if they get the chance.
Even corporate America is starting to get it, they see the fascism and how of course how many of their consumers hate it.
Looking at all this I’m beginning to understand how the western democracies felt after World War I and the horrific rise of Hitler, death and smashing war could not be happening again, would not happen again. Gradually it began to dawn on them that if Hitler wanted war there was absolutely nothing they could do, it was take up the insanity of arms again or perish.
Watching the Republican Party we find ourselves in the same spot, they’ve gone berserk and everything possible must be done to fight back against the crisis. But unlike the Europeans we can’t take up the same tactics to defend ourselves and the country, Democrats don’t gerrymander, are honest and revere Democracy.
We can frantically try to shore up base democracy elements and systems but if the Republicans just chuck democracy, truth and voting there’s nothing that will work to stop it, nothing, eventually we’ll lose the democracy and country.
Easily in our lifetimes, it’s amazing how fast political systems can fall apart. All we can do now is fervently spread the word not to ignore the 2022 midterms, it’s impossible to know but this may be our last real national Democratic election, gerrymandering could easily wreck it. Things really are that serious, and prospects for 21st century American democracy look grim.