evince (12-03-2021), Guno צְבִי (12-03-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-03-2021)
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.”
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
evince (12-03-2021), Guno צְבִי (12-03-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-03-2021)
Oh noes the horror.
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Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
Guno צְבִי (12-03-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-03-2021)
They are not a growing force
The racists are being told by actors like Russia that their numbers are big when they are actually small
Most of the trump voters are lie filled fox clowns who would NEVER kill for trump
They are just idiots who think their lives should have been better
And need someone to blame for their failures and disappointments
Hating all those black and brown people they never met is easy
They can just pretend they would have been world heros IF they had not been held down by (add your favorite person to blame) and they had never been born
They will crawl away to some hidey hole and not fight anyone if it means they truely have to sacrifice anything for others
I want them to start their race war
That way we can be rid of these brain fractured failures
Amen to that. You should read what the TrumpTards are saying on Trump's blog thedeskofdonaldtrum.com. They're always talking about guns and vigilantism. All they think about is killing those unlike them. They're violent. They're desperate. They're very easy to manipulate due to their lack of education and common sense.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
evince (12-03-2021), ThatOwlWoman (12-03-2021)
Today, 09:47 AM
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Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
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