I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy. The power brokers have decided they want full dictator for life and the idiots thinking they will benefit by allowing it are going to regret it infinitely more than the Brexit hangover.
I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy.
Yes, they have been slowly moving towards that view since the great depression and new deal made it so they couldn’t win an election on the strength of their ideas alone. So they tried making up shit about Communists in the 1950s, and when that wasn’t enough they started bringing KKK types into their party by dog whistling about civil rights laws with Goldwater and Nixon in the 1960s.
Lying to voters and opposing the rights of racial minorities to (among other things) be able to vote without intimidation was already super anti-democratic and they have been all about that for 50 years or more. Really the only thing different now is how they’re saying quiet parts loud.
I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy. The power brokers have decided they want full dictator for life and the idiots thinking they will benefit by allowing it are going to regret it infinitely more than the Brexit hangover.
Yes, they have been slowly moving towards that view since the great depression and new deal made it so they couldn’t win an election on the strength of their ideas alone. So they tried making up shit about Communists in the 1950s, and when that wasn’t enough they started bringing KKK types into their party by dog whistling about civil rights laws with Goldwater and Nixon in the 1960s.
Lying to voters and opposing the rights of racial minorities to (among other things) be able to vote without intimidation was already super anti-democratic and they have been all about that for 50 years or more. Really the only thing different now is how they’re saying quiet parts loud.