Monday, July 08, 2024

Sleepwalking into Fascism. Not Acceptable!

Yes. Weird. A media frenzy about Old Honest Joe. Barely a word about the bloated Fascist heading up the GOP? I mean, WTF? We need a better grade of Political Pundit, and a better Press. Sleepwalking into Fascism is not my vision for America. 

Writer, Historian, Activist Rebecca Solnit, writing in the Guardian:

"Speaking of coups, we’ve had a couple of late, which perhaps merit attention as we consider who is unfit to hold office. This time around, Trump is not just a celebrity with a lot of sexual assault allegations, bankruptcies and loopily malicious statements, as he was in 2016. He’s a convicted criminal who orchestrated a coup attempt to steal an election both through backroom corruption and public lies and through a violent attack on Congress. The extremist US supreme court justices he selected during his last presidential term themselves staged a coup this very Monday, overthrowing the US constitution itself and the principle that no one is above the law to make presidents into kings, just after legalizing bribery of officials, and dismantling the regulatory state by throwing out the Chevron deference.

Trump’s own former staffers are part of the Heritage Foundation’s team planning to implement Project 2025 if he wins, which would finish off our system of government with yet another coup. “We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” said the foundation’s president the other day. This alarms me. So does the behavior of the US mainstream media, which seems more concerned with sabotaging the only thing standing between us and this third coup.

“Why aren’t we talking about Trump’s fascism?”
demands the headline of Jeet Heer’s piece in the Nation..."