"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."
The MAGA movement is and has always been a racist extremist project and anyone who is too afraid to say that in plain language does not deserve your support and should not be taken seriously
I'm done mincing words. These fascists need to be afraid to leave DC. Democratic governors need to start arresting and prosecuting any Trump lackey who sets foot in their state. ICE and BP first. We need to make people not want to risk working for him.
This is a perfect example of why capitalism *must* be destroyed.
Any system that allows the extreme accumulation of wealth and power results in individuals who abuse said power. Those who accrue power inevitably corrupt any checks put on their power.
Remember, the hypocrisy is part of the strategy. Unless there are actual consequences for this, it's just one more example of the normalization of hate and bigotry.
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.
Hopefully. But I'm not holding my breath for most of them.
The bigger battlefield, one that scum like Sinclair have been fighting on for decades is the affiliate stations. Most of these news people are not big-name stars, and real pushback comes with harsher consequences and less protection.
I'm not sure exactly what your point is, I think I'm just not understanding you. Are you saying that the First Amendment allows them to say whatever they want, making it hard for journalists to cover them well?
That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
