This open admiration for authoritarianism among Trump supporters is the focus of articles by The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes and Vox’s Zack Beauchamp. Sykes, a Never Trump conservative, has stressed that one doesn’t have to be a liberal to believe in liberal democracy — and he warns that democracy is something that the MAGA right is outright contemptuous of.”
-https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-orban/
The Fascist-Curious Right
“It is now August of 2021,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers (R) wrote in a letter to the Senate on Monday. “The election of November 2020 is over. If you haven’t figured out that the election in Maricopa County was free, fair, and accurate yet, I’m not sure you ever will.
This is, of course, weapons-grade nutbaggery. But maybe we need to take it seriously, because something genuinely odd (and disturbing) is happening on the right.
-https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-fascist-curious-right?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MDA5NzUyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTUwODg0MSwiXyI6Ik14Sll1IiwiaWF0IjoxNjI4MTAyNDA2LCJleHAiOjE2MjgxMDYwMDYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04NzI3MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.khb0PdDOIRTIZJxu4c993b8vmXcAvKRWKDKDhkzwTvo
The Republican Party has embraced an agenda that rigs the rules in their favor. There’s a name for that behavior.
Call it authoritarianism
Blocking an inquiry into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, embracing Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was stolen, making it easier for partisans to tamper with the process of counting votes: These are not the actions of a party committed to the basic idea of open, representative government.
-https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/6/15/22522504/republicans-authoritarianism-trump-competitive
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