National Republicans have been fighting democracy for a long time. It did not begin with Trump, though he's certainly released the hounds. He's also brought almost all elected Republicans under his thumb, even the ones who might have cared about democracy at one point in the past. But remember, Citizens United, the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, and voter ID laws go back to when Republicans realized they could not win a democratic election.
What we're seeing now is just whirlwind of all the wind sowing they've been doing. They do not want democracy. They want white power.
Here in Pennsylvania, we have Republican lawmakers trying to open an investigation in to the voting process--they want not to review the election but to meddle with it while it's happening.
In Texas the governor is restricting drop-off spots for mail-in ballots to one location per county. Think how big a Texas county is. Remember that some Texas counties have populations as high as 3 million. One location. They call it an "election security measure."
The state director of Florida Latinos for Trump turns out to be a Proud Boy. Here he is flashing the white power sign with Roger Stone.
NBC reports that Trump administration officials were ordered to "make comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse," the white Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter who killed two protestors and maimed another. How does that sound in the light of Trump telling the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by"? For some reason White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany could not bring herself to directly condemn white supremacy in response to a question from a Fox reporter.
So tell me they're not all fascists?
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