America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late

[marmar]

America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late
Americans see the threat to democracy at last. But it's no time to celebrate: The Trumpists aren't beaten yet

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 6:30AM (EDT)


(Salon) For the last six years or so, most Americans — especially white Americans — were in denial about the monster rampaging across the country. Like privileged children, they believed that if their eyes were closed, the monster couldn't harm them. The real world does not work that way.

Those slumbering Americans are not entirely responsible for their bad decisions. In one ear they had the hope-peddlers and centrist pundits whispering, like faeries or gods in some pre-Raphaelite painting, that everything would be fine and they should just keep sleeping. In the other ear were Donald Trump, the Republican fascists and their allies, assuring them that everything would be fine and good because the Trump movement was fighting for "real Americans" like them.

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In all, the NBC poll offers further evidence that the Trumpists and Republican-fascists of the MAGAverse have constructed an alternate reality in which the basic understanding of facts and truth — and also the meaning of democracy and freedom — have been debased and distorted. Fascism is fueled by such fantasies, and malignant realities. This fracture may well decide the future of America.

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Other research has demonstrated that a large proportion of Trump supporters are willing to give up democracy if it means that white people must share power with nonwhites. In practice their vision of new America will entrench white conservative minority rule over an increasingly diverse and pluralistic majority. There is a name for such a society: apartheid.

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This is an existential struggle. Pro-democracy Americans — especially Democrats and liberals who still believe in the lasting power of our political system and "democratic institutions" — are running out of time to treat the crisis with the urgency it demands. More Americans are waking up to the danger of the Republican fascists and their movement. It is now a moral, patriotic and personal imperative for the entire nation to wake and face its historical responsibility. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/09/06/america-is-finally-waking-up-to-the-fascist-danger-lets-hope-its-not-too-late/

[Lovie777]

1. This last ruling is fucked.......

USA citizens are waking up, and a lot of them are Republicans - no one is above the law.

Plus Republicans were the party of national security in the past? Or was that a fucking ruse.

The USA is not secure with any Republican at this point in time.

[markodochartaigh]

2. Ruse

"Plus Republicans were the party of national security in the past? Or was that a fucking ruse."

Nixon's allies scuttled the 1968 Paris Peace Talks to increase Nixon's chance of winning the presidency.

Reagan's allies had the US hostages kept hostage until after the election to increase Reagan's chance of winning the presidency.

It seems like the Republicans are the party of throwing national security under the bus for their own interests.

[Bayard]

3. True, that

Nixon allies were doing everything they could to monkey wrench peace, and sink Humphrey. All about the winning, not the number of lives lost.