GOP Is Fighting a War on Democracy All Over America
That sound you hear, which sounds suspiciously like jackboots, is the Republican Party marching out of the closet and proclaiming its opposition to democracy.
After decades of promoting minority rule—but dressing up their intentions with a fig leaf of respect for America’s history, values, and tradition—the GOP has now dropped any pretense of caring about our Constitution or the principles upon which the United States was founded.
Although the embrace of Nazi rhetoric, techniques, and tactics by the party’s standard bearer should chill any American who cares about the country’s future to the bone—in recent days it has become absolutely clear that the leadership of the Republican Party has decided to publicly own their authoritarian aspirations.
They just do not care any more about appearances.
Thanks in part to the fact that the most popular politician in their party openly mimics the language of Hitler, promises to throw his opponents in jail, pacl the federal government with legions of loyal toadies, and fill camps with immigrants he wants to expel from the country, at the federal and state level, GOP officials are starting to favor the words and deeds of in your face fascism as their party’s main message and deliverables.
Take the resounding Ohio vote to guarantee a right to abortion in the state constitution. The fact that the people of Ohio spoke, and the vote was not even close, did not matter a bit to that state’s Republican legislators. They immediately responded by saying the legislature will “consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-fighting-a-war-on-democracy-all-over-america
This sounds like war, people.
