From claiming indictment is politically advantageous for the twice impeached, disgraced former president to passing a 'fugitive uterus act' in Idaho to expelling two black state legislators in Tennessee for the crime of protesting gun violence, the Republican party has gone all in on fascism as it attempts to take power by undemocratic means throughout the country.
The putative standard bearer for the GOP, Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy in several different venues ranging from a civil suit alledging sexual assault against several women to leading a coup against the legitimately elected president, Joe Biden in 2021.
Meanwhile, the state of Idaho wants to make it illegal for citizens to cross its borders in search of abortions. The legal ramifications boggle the mind. For a state which trumpets its libertarian bona fides, this is clearly a case of overreach.
Finally, Tennessee trumpeted its racism as the state legislature, ruled by a supermajority of GOP members, expelled two blacks while failing to do the same for a white woman who participated with the men in a demonstration demanding action on gun violence less than two weeks after a mass shooting at a Christian school in the state. Republicans let the entire nation know that Jim Crow is alive and well in the Volunteer State.
Taken together, these incidents show the Republican party is declaring it is a racist, fascist cult of personality which appeals to the Id of its base, largely older, white males who increasingly feel threatened by a multicultural society they neither understand or trust to govern.
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