{"id":358,"date":"2023-12-10T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/skipjack\/?p=358"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:57:26","slug":"the-republican-party-goes-all-in-on-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/skipjack\/2023\/12\/10\/the-republican-party-goes-all-in-on-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Party Goes All In On Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three paragraphs in a recent posting of Heather Cox Richardson\u2019s daily blog, Letters from an American, <\/em>tell us all we need to know about today\u2019s Republican Party.<\/p>\n

I quote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (Republicans\u2019) quest for power \u2026 showed up this week when a federal appeals court released secret text messages from Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) to other participants in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, revealing his drastic attempts to end the fight of the American people to choose their president.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that attempt, Perry communicated with Justice Department attorney Jeff Clark, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Director of National Intelligence John Ratclife, many of Trump\u2019s lawyers, and numerous Pennsylvania state lawmakers including Doug Mastriano, none of whom contacted authorities about the attempt to overthrow our democratic system.\u00a0 <\/em>(Italics mine.)<\/p>\n

\u201cPerry also contacted other Republican representatives, including Jody Hice (R-GA), Jim Jordan (R-OH),\u00a0 Chip Roy (R-TX), and representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about the effort.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t alert anyone to the anti-democratic effort, either.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (Italics mine again).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s nine named Very Important Persons and a large number of other VIP Republicans who knew Donald Trump was committing those crimes against their government, and not one of them \u2013 not one of them!<\/em> \u2013 reported it to the authorities!\u00a0 That makes them participants in his felonies.\u00a0 In his sedition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is not normal, people.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 A former and would-be president runs a Mafia-like conspiracy to overturn a legitimate national election by denying millions of Americans their basic right to vote and have their votes counted.\u00a0 And even though that constitutes sedition, many of America\u2019s leading Republicans were happy to go along with him, even though his plan would destroy our democracy and get himself installed as America\u2019s first fascist dictator.<\/p>\n

Yes sedition.\u00a0 And yes fascist dictator.\u00a0 And federal prosecutors have noticed.\u00a0 Last week, in a new court filing, they accused Trump of a long pattern of lying about elections and encouraging violence, saying he \u201csent\u201d supporters on\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021<\/a>,\u00a0to criminally block the election results.\u00a0 That is the dictionary definition of sedition.<\/p>\n

Predictably, Trump is saying that the federal government, not he, staged or incited that Jan. 6 violence to discredit him and his supporters.\u00a0 He offered no proof, of course.\u00a0 Not even any evidence.\u00a0 Just another lie among his tens of thousands of others.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a fascist, a neo-Nazi, and his minions and his party either have not realized that yet or they do realize it and they also are fascists.\u00a0 Or lunatics.\u00a0 Trump is a devoted student of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Fuhrer who ordered the murder of 6 million Jews and 500,000 gypsies.\u00a0 The connections between Hitler and Trump are undeniable. (See The Hitler-Trump Connections<\/a>,<\/em> 10\/16\/23).<\/p>\n

Trump has even said publicly what he will do if he regains the White House, and it\u2019s just what Hitler did.<\/p>\n

He will weaponize the Justice Department to explicitly go after his political opponents, including the Biden family, district attorneys across the nation, journalists, and the \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n

He will stack his cabinet and government agencies across the board with Trump loyalists who will understand they are free to break the law because they will be pardoned.<\/p>\n

He will incarcerate and expel millions of immigrants and children of immigrants.<\/p>\n

He will ban Muslims, silence LGBTQ+ Americans, prosecute journalists, end abortion across the country and send federal troops into Democratic cities.<\/p>\n

He also promised to dole out\u00a0 pardons to convicted felons who would work for him —\u00a0 and that he has already done.\u00a0 The Washington Post broke the story last week that Trump used his constitutional clemency powers as president to free or forgive many felons who would be useful to him.<\/p>\n

Post reporters reviewed Trump\u2019s 238 clemency orders and discovered that dozens of them are now working with his 2024 campaign.\u00a0 Some are praising him through social media and national interviews, some are raising or contributing money to his campaign, and others are disseminating his false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive so many felons just so they could be useful to him.<\/p>\n

All of that is right out of the Hitler playbook.<\/p>\n

I realize I harp on this topic, but I am convinced that most people do not realize that Trump is a would-be fascist dictator, the once-grand Republican Party supports him, and if these people don\u2019t wake up and vote next November the result could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n

Their ignorance of that fact probably can largely be blamed on the news media because the media is focusing on the campaign\u2019s horserace aspects instead of what the candidates are saying and doing. Mainstream news sources rarely if ever use the words fascist or neo-Nazi, preferring instead to use weaker synonyms such as authoritarian, so a lot of people are not aware the next election could result in a dictatorship.<\/p>\n

As Liz Cheney recently told a CBS interviewer, \u201cOne of the things we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Daily<\/em> put it this way a few days ago:<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s autocratic instincts have now fully mutated into an embrace of fascism.\u00a0 And yet, America shrugs: Millions of voters think of the upcoming election as just another contest between a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat, instead of an existential contest between democracy and authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Atlantic <\/em>magazine has found Trump\u2019s actions and promises so alarming that it contracted 24 writers to \u201cexplain how Donald Trump could destroy America\u2019s civic and democratic institutions, including its courts, national political culture, and military, if he succeeds in returning to the Oval Office.\u201d\u00a0 Their articles, which will appear in The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s January\/February issue, will \u201cdescribe the threats that a second Trump term would pose to the United States government, to the country\u2019s institutions, U.S. national security, and the American idea itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Kagan, a contributing editor for The Washington Post, expressed even deeper pessimism recently when he wrote that a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States and it is getting shorter every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kagan argues that Trump leads his closest Republican opponent by 47 points and that doesn\u2019t appear to be changing, so Trump will effectively be the Republican nominee when\u00a0 Super Tuesday ballots are counted March 2.\u00a0\u00a0 When that happens, there will be a swift and dramatic shift in the political power dynamic, all in his favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cVotes are the currency of power in our system, and money follows, and by those measures, Trump is about to become far more powerful than he already is.\u00a0 The hour of casting about for alternatives is closing.\u00a0 The next phase is about people falling in line. \u2026 As perilous as it is for Republicans to say a negative word about Trump today, it will be impossible once he has sewn up the nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would put tremendous momentum behind Trump going into the General Election, and a rolling boulder is hard to stop \u2013 especially since many or most Democrats, especially the young ones, are not happy with Joe Biden and therefore might not even vote.<\/p>\n

I can see Kagan\u2019s point, and I agree with him as far as he goes.\u00a0 But I believe that when American voters of all stripes wake up to why<\/u><\/em> Americans\u00a0 joined hands 80 years ago to defend democracy from the very same fascism Trump and his party pushing on us today, they will turn out in record numbers to preserve our precious democratic republic.<\/p>\n

I simply cannot believe that a majority of awakened Americans \u2013 woke Americans if you will — would even consider turning the presidency over to a person and his party who lie, conceal, misguide, scheme, cheat and even commit felonies up to and including sedition to get their way, to destroy democracy, and install a neo-Nazi as our dictator.<\/p>\n

I see a blue tsunami coming<\/p>\n

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