Both former gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and Florida Governor DeSantis are proposing an election police force to bolster the Big Lie from Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. Maybe these police should be called the “Election Outcome Enforcement Bureau.”
In the four years Trump spent in the White House, he set back progress against racism and white supremacy decades. And he wants to keep this degradation of American rolling.
Fascism has a playbook, handed down from generations of dictators, all who ascended to power using this easy-to-follow checklist. Part of that checklist is doing away with “objectionable” reading material.
Blatant racial discrimination has driven hundreds of thousands of good, Black farmers off the land.
The former guy complained that expanding voting rights would set a stage where “Republicans could never get elected again.” Frankly, since the Republican Party has been destroyed by his influence and corruption, that would be fine.
Intellectuals and intelligent people in general are capable of rapidly recognizing bullshit when they see it. So it is easy to see why the leaders of ineffectuals hate them and target them with labels like “elites,” “intellectuals,” “liberals” or “Jews.”
The radicalized faction of what used to be the Republican Party has been cozying up to the most radical, racist and violent right wing terrorist factions in our country for some time now.
Even now, discussions during plantation tours among visitors can often turn into visceral debates over whether the history of slavery should be told or ignored.
The [Kyle Rittenhouse] verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”