We still don’t have the right vocabulary and words to describe what the Republican Party had become.
https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1433186188928692234
The word I keep coming back to is barbaric. There is something pre-modern about what we are seeing, a reliance on violence, extremism and anti-science thinking that isn't captured by solely by the words authoritarian or fascist.
What I am getting at here is that we have to settle on how to describe the post-GOP/MAGA variant of right wing politics we are seeing now. We can't use many words - we have to settle on just a few to make this work. And people have to understand them, regular people.
The two words keep coming back are extremist, and barbaric. I think words like fascist, authoritarian aren't going to work with the public. One thing we do know is that this is no longer the party of Lincoln. It's something else, and we shouldn't call them Republicans any more.
I don’t like fascist because it feels like something of the past, not this moment. We aren’t talking about Nazis, we are talking present day MAGA extremists. They are unique to this moment and need their own name, label, understanding.
Come back to barbarism and extremism because they help incorporate the violence, lack of concern about loss of life, rejection of truth/science into our narrative.
We have to stop sanitizing what we’re seeing here. Normalcy bias is a huge threat when things are far from normal.
We have to stop sanitizing what we’re seeing here. Normalcy bias is a huge threat when things are far from normal.
Here we are. MAGA just no longer operating within the political parameters of the modern West. It’s barbaric, extreme and dangerous.
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