Anecdotes about Republicans not paying attention to the impeachment trial, not keeping abreast of evidence of crimes, and maneuvering to cover up treasonous behavior aren't harmless.
A party willingly subverting the rule of law for the purposes of maintaining power is fascism.
A party willingly subverting the rule of law for the purposes of maintaining power is fascism.
This is part of a fascistic disease. Covering up Trump's crimes, disenfranchising minority groups, standing by while a president undermines national security for private profit.
It's not strategy. It's not politics. It's the embrace of fascistic tactics for the sake of power.
It's not strategy. It's not politics. It's the embrace of fascistic tactics for the sake of power.
Pundits and political analysts need to get with this in a hurry. They've spent so long analyzing bad faith politics as strategizing and effective game theory. What they're missing is that that bad faith and game theorizing has metastasized as society destroying, fullblown fascism
Politics was never supposed to be a game. It's how a society functions. By treating this like it's a contest instead of a vital need we've enabled an artificial state of play where laws and humanity have been discarded.
We have to reject this. We have to recognize the threat.
We have to reject this. We have to recognize the threat.
As we watched this play out, as the media spruces up a constitutional, social crisis with graphics and dramatic music, we have to get past the idea that Republicans are engaged in a game.
This is how we lose everything. And it'll be gone and vanished before we know it.
This is how we lose everything. And it'll be gone and vanished before we know it.
