As Umair Haque observed, “Think back in recent history. Those of us who warned? That this was an implosive social movement led by a demagogue? Who came right out and used the word ‘fascism?’ What were we met with? Laughter, mockery, disdain.”
I remember thinking on Jan. 6, 2021, that now, finally, here was something the corporate news media couldn’t “normalize” — the Republican attempt to overthrow American democracy in plain sight.
Boy was I wrong.
The overridingly significant political issue in this country is the very one that the cowardly corporate news media refuses to address: the fact that the GOP is now a fascist party.
And Trump is merely a symptom. The Republican Party itself is the raging epidemic.
The 21st century GOP is entirely fascist, from Dumb Donald and Moscow Mitch at the top right on down to the snickerdoodle-baking, church-going granny who’s sure all problems can be traced to those awful “Chicago people” (hint, hint) that Fox News keeps warning the old bats about.
The GOP is now nothing but a wrecking ball that swings randomly, smashing this democratic institution here, that rule of law there. And the only job the Democratic Party has now is holding out against totalitarian Republican fascism.
The GOP is on a tortuous political path, but I know where it ends: with them putting us in front of a firing squad.
Fascism is, after all, so tediously predictable.
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