The GOP's New Definition of Freedom

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The GOP’s New Definition of Freedom

August 29, 2021 at 2:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 96 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/29/the-gops-new-definition-of-freedom/

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Charlie Sykes: “About a week after testing positive for Covid-19 himself, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning the use of vaccine mandates in the public sector and for businesses that contract with the state.”

“The Republican’s guidance was sweeping — overriding both local control and private sector rights.”

“So much for limited government, property rights, or conservative principles. Abbott’s order was also a revealing indication of how the GOP now defines freedom.”

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[The Blue Flower]

1. He and Desantis are both tinpot dictators

Cruel, soulless, homicidal in their lust for power.

[Kittycatkat]

2. Disturbing what is happening in America. Fight on

[Algernon Moncrieff]

4. A lot of white America wants order a lot more than it wants freedom

Change is likely to bring them losses of money and power. They don't want that.

[brush]

5. Seems it was never about merit and proving oneself.

Was always about white privilege.

[CanonRay]

3. The freedom to do what they want to do.

[MissMillie]

6. Employers have the right to protect their employees

not just the right--the responsibility

[Hortensis]

7. Yup. It's not called authoritarianism for no reason. Trumpist types

want to be relieved from the burdens of democracy and too much freedom. That means freedom from personal responsibility that should be exercised by their leaders, who they count on to protect society from being corrupted by "inappropriate" pursuit of happiness.

Local governments run by local powers have often been authoritarian, limited far more by state and federal law than their own citizens. (“In America Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is,...”) We also had scary-big national authoritarian fascist and socialist movements here back in the same era that nations in Europe and elsewhere fell to them. And here we are again.

Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden 80 years ago