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Murray, Ky., State University historian Brian Clardy says it’s past time for the Democrats to start reminding voters–loudly, clearly, and unceasingly–precisely where Donald Trump and the Trumpian Republicans are steering the country:
Straight toward white supremacy and authoritarianism.
“This is not bean bagging,” he said. “This is not cocktail party conversation. This is real. This is serious, and it is frightening.”
Clardy said he could sense a white backlash building on the very day Barack Obama was sworn in as president. A Kentucky delegate to the 2016 Democratic national convention, he was in the crowd on Jan. 20, 2017.
“While we’re celebrating here in Washington, folks back home are seething,” he said to a woman standing near him.
“[Trumpism] started with the rise of the Tea Party,” he said. “That was a precursor to what we saw with Trump, saw on Jan. 6 and are seeing in these violent right-wing militias who feel emboldened by the last president and who are organizing and growing.”
Meanwhile, the GOP relentlessly demagogues against the Democrats, falsely portraying them as “radical socialists” and even “communists.” Yet the Democrats, in the main, hold back from calling out Trumpism what it is–a racist, anti-democratic movement that embraces violence and vigilantism and borders on neo-fascism.
Clardy is hardly alone in begging the Democrats to fight back harder against Trump and Trumpian Republicans, who dominate the party.
“The country is sleepwalking its way into an authoritarian overthrow of democracy,” warned Slate’s Amanda Marcotte. “….But it doesn’t have to be this way…Democrats have real power, and even if a couple of no-good centrist Democrats are standing in the way of electoral reform, there are surely other actions that could be taken to stop Trump.”
She didn’t hold back: “A lack of imagination and political cowardice, however, is inducing this attitude of helplessness in Democrats. And it’s one that Trump will all too easily exploit to get his way.”
Clardy said Democrats seem to think that successfully enacting their economic program to benefit workaday Americans will be enough to hold the House and Senate in 2022 and keep Biden in the White House in 2024.
“Yes, we need to create jobs,” he said. “Yes, we need to stabilize the economy. Yes, we need to bring inflation down. Yes, we need to bring down gas prices and food prices. That’s par for the larger course.
“But the Democrats have to remind folks in 2022 and 2024 that democracy itself is on trial. The Republicans looked the other way on Jan. 6, and they looked the other way with [Arizona Republican Rep. Paul] Gosar. If they’re willing to do that, what else are they capable of doing to undermine this democratic republic?”
Vox’s Zack Beauchamp echoes Clardy and Marcotte: “Blocking an inquiry into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, embracing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ that the election was stolen, making it easier for partisans to tamper with the process of counting votes: These are not the actions of a party committed to the basic idea of open, representative government.”
Labeling Republican actions “anti-democratic…can only go so far” because, “it tells us what they’re moving America away from, but not where they want to take it,” he argued. “The term ‘minority rule‘ is closer, but euphemistic; it puts the Republican actions in the same category as a Supreme Court ruling, counter-majoritarian moves inside a democratic framework rather than something fundamentally opposed to it.”
Beauchamp, too, didn’t mince words: “It’s worth being clear about this: The GOP has become an authoritarian party pushing an authoritarian policy agenda.”
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post wrote that it’s not just GOP bigwigs and bankrollers driving the Trump Train. “Alas, the authoritarian temptation is luring millions of Americans away from the democratic experiment.”
HEARSAY BULLSHJIT FROM A RACIST LEFTIDIOT, TALKING ABOUT THE POTUS WHO GAVE MORE MONEY TO HBCU's THAN ANY OTHER , SIGNED THE "SECOND CHANCE ACT" INTO LAW, SAW THE LOWEST MINORITY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN OUR HISTORY, AS WELL AS THE FASTEST WEALTH INCREASE FOR AMERICANS, INCLUDING MIJNORIOTIES, IN OVER 30 YEARS.
SOME "RACIST WHITE SUPREMACIST"; CLARDY IS THE OBVIOUS RACIST/. THE ONLY COLOR TRUMP CARES ABOUT IS "GREEN" , AND HE GOT MORE OF IT FOR NEARLY EVERY AMERICAN.
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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