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The Republican Party has a White Nationalism Problem that Isn’t Going Away

Does this remind you of anyone?  “No Australia” you should feel ashamed for yelling “Reverse Racism” It simply doesn’t exist.

Donald Trump is then shown at a rally (with several Black people behind him wearing “Blacks for Trump” T-shirts) saying about Covid treatments, “If you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line. Discriminating against white people!” Again, there’s a cut to Duke stating, “There is racial discrimination going on right now in this country against massive numbers of white Americans.”

Source: The Republican Party has a White Nationalism Problem that Isn’t Going Away

Informed Comment

Trump and the Republican party exemplify these five elements of fascism | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Donald Trump

Borrowing from the cultural theorist Umberto Eco, the historians Emilio Gentile and Ian Kershaw, the political scientist Roger Griffin, and the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, I offer five elements that distinguish fascism from authoritarianism.

Source: Trump and the Republican party exemplify these five elements of fascism | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Informed Comment

Maybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’ | Robert Reich | The Guardian

‘If you’re seeking a presidential nomination in today’s GOP, there’s nothing like an accusation of fascism to rally Trump supporters.’

My tweet about Ron DeSantis provoked outrage in rightwing media – perhaps it hit the nerve of the fascism now taking root in the Republican party?

Source: Maybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’ | Robert Reich | The Guardian

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Republicans have dropped the mask — they openly support fascism. What do we do about it? | Salon.com

Donald Trump | The US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump couldn’t wait to respond. To respond to what he thought of Putin and how terrific and clever a leader he was.

“I think he has a great way. He’s a leader. He’s sharp. He’s at the top of his game.” Trump said with love in his eyes.

He continued, “Our guy was never at the top of his game. You could go back 30 years ago, he wasn’t at the top of his game.”

Now, more than a year after the attack on the Capitol, there is a mountain of evidence that confirms what was obvious at the time, and even before: Trump’s coup attempt was a highly coordinated nationwide effort, whose ultimate goal was to overthrow multiracial democracy and install Trump as de facto dictator. Ultimately, the Republican Party’s embrace of fascism as a now-indispensable part of its identity should not be a surprise. This devolution was years in the making. In a recent essay for the New Republic, Michael Tomasky summarizes this:

Source: Republicans have dropped the mask — they openly support fascism. What do we do about it? | Salon.com

Informed Comment

For Republicans, There Will Be No “Return to Normal”

Rightward Republican Party radicalization is well-positioned for continuing political success, even as it promises to bring political and economic instability for the country and the world with it.

Source: For Republicans, There Will Be No “Return to Normal”

Informed Comment

Republicans once called government the problem – now they want to run your life | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Ronald Reagan once said: ‘Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.’ Today’s Republicans are practicing the opposite.

Ronald Reagan would not recognise a party that wants to intrude the power of the state everywhere, making a mockery of values it once espoused

Source: Republicans once called government the problem – now they want to run your life | Robert Reich | The Guardian

America's Shame

The Republican Party’s flirtation with Fascism is becoming a Marriage

Republicans love to hijack democratic and progressive concepts, such as “free speech,” and apply them in a hyperbolic context that is counterintuitive to the original intent. While this tactic burgeoned in recent years, Donald Trump’s presidency and toxic wake has elevated the issues and urgency to defeat this.

Source: The Republican Party’s flirtation with Fascism is becoming a Marriage

Democracy

Democracy or the white supremacist mob: which side is the Republican party on? | Donald Trump | The Guardian
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Next week Republicans in Washington have one more chance to turn their backs on fascism. They could reject the laughable claims from Trump’s lawyers that he was merely exercising his free speech rights by telling his mob to march on Congress and fight like hell. Apparently such conduct does not constitute incitement to riot, because the word “incitement” has lost all relationship to reality. Nobody expects Republican senators to vote in enough numbers to convict Trump of the obvious charges that played out on television. Nobody expects enough of them to reject the violent overthrow of the democracy that put them in the Senate. They represent, to use Bush’s language, a hostile regime inside the nation’s capital. Until Republicans split with the insurrectionists – by ejecting them from their party or forming their own – democracy itself is unsafe.

Democracy or the white supremacist mob: which side is the Republican party on? | Donald Trump | The Guardian
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Either We Destroy the Republican Party or It Will Destroy Us, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review

via Either We Destroy the Republican Party or It Will Destroy Us, by Eric Striker – The Unz Review