They know if they don't cater to the crazy, racist and bigoted MAGAs then they have no chance at getting enough votes to win elections now because most of the country actually wants progress and is becoming less and less conservative
It’s pure nativism, and the tools he would use to try to do it would almost certainly be fascistic.
Brown Jesus would, but not the Orange Jesus.
As someone who has long been interested in politics and history and was a Poli Sci major in college, I can remember when I was younger contemplating how Germans in the 1930s allowed Hitler and the Nazis to rise to power.
I was browsing in an upscale clothing store that used hardback books as a big part of the decor. The books were all turned with their back away from the customers, so I grabbed one to see what the book was (as I am wont to do). It was:
It looks like you can grab a used copy on Amazon for under $10. I might have to add one to my next order.I was browsing in an upscale clothing store that used hardback books as a big part of the decor. The books were all turned with their back away from the customers, so I grabbed one to see what the book was (as I am wont to do). It was:
I got curious and looked it up on amazon. From a review:
Sinclair Lewis famously wrote in the depths of the depression, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Lewis's 1935 novel, "It Can't happen Here," postulated the rise of a fascist government that merged the interests of big business and big government to take away the hard fought rights ensconced in the U.S. Constitution. For Joe Conason, the eight years of the presidency of George W. Bush came as close as any time in U.S. history in which fascism reigned. "Manipulating our fears, stirring religious divisions, and contriving to create a state of permanent war," he writes, "they have sought to institute a rule of men instead of a rule of law--and they have reinvented the president as a sovereign monarch rather than an executive with limited powers. With the backing of corporate wealth and fundamentalist religion, the unitary presidency represents a potential tyranny" (p. 202).
In only five chapters Conason takes the reader through a litany of abuses of authority during the first decade of the twenty-first century. At its core was a belief in a "unitary executive," asserting that in time of war the president had all authority to preserve the safety of the United States and its citizens. This provided the legal cover for an assertion of presidential power as never before in more than two hundred years under the Constitution. The fact that the other two branches of government--the legislative and the judicial--largely agreed to this corralling of authority, and in some instances even facilitated it, is disturbing to Conason and he makes the case for a vigilant response.
Feels like this guy was on top of things back in 2007. I may have to find a copy.
