Thread by @JYSexton

Let's be very clear about this.

The GOP and the Right are not interested in rolling back this or that or incremental change.

This is a project dedicated to literally eradicating social progress and reinstalling blatant authoritarian rule by white, wealthy, evangelical men.

We're not talking about harassing trans or gay people or restricting women's rights or the rights of people of color.

We're talking about disappearing entire groups. Subjecting them. Oppressing them.

We're talking about a literal rewinding of the clock.

There's no negotiating with this authoritarian movement. No "finding a middle ground."

You either protect progress and human rights or your sacrifice them in totality. This doesn't stop with Roe V. Wade or voting rights.

Those things are only the preamble to the larger push.

What the GOP has put into motion is a systematic unraveling of liberal democracy and the progress of the 20th century.

We're talking about a managed system, top to bottom. Educational. Cultural. Fixed "elections."

It's time to stop denying what this is.

We’re on the preview of a massive change in political order where momentum shifts from a neoliberal consensus to something else. Right now that momentum is solidly with illiberal authoritarianism buffeted by white evangelical hypercapitalism.

This is a start.

If you want to know where we’re going, look at Hungary and Russia. Only the American descent will be more outsized, aggressive, and possibly violent.

The time of pretending is way past over. You’ve got a full blown authoritarian crisis on your hands.