#AntiDemocracyGOP Wisconsin GOP threatens to impeach newly elected Wisconsin Liberal Supreme Court Justice, just because she is a Democrat that give the Liberals a majority on the Court. How low can they go? “WATCH US!” They yell. 🔥
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsin-republicans-talking-impeaching-new-state-supreme-court-102894204 🤬

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-15-2023?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lvmc

"It appears the Trump Republicans have fully embraced what Russian political theorists called “political technology”: the construction of a virtual political reality through modern media."

#authoritarian
#AntiDemocracyGOP
#HeatherCoxRichardson
#USpolitics

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/10/dont-be-fooled-by-the-spin-are-banning-courses-and-harassing-teachers-out-of-their-job/?s=09

It's worth the time to read this piece.

"The strategy isn't even hidden: Write the rules so that there is no way to avoid breaking them, and then use the rule-breaking as a pretense to end public education entirely."

#education
#USpolitics
#AntiDemocracyGOP

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/trump-prosecution-feels-different-scary.html?fbclid=IwAR2h9TpUC_hLqcM0udSv47LcfyAAJvxR4zmLHC3J_FO4UYtbaZOlh_Y3wOA_aem_AflEi8rsE7ofgyKz-TiZHvyMGOsmRptT42-lKHLZRczNE7GrV0vDUY3ObyxMXgHRpek&mibextid=Zxz2cZ&s=09

"In the failure to seek any consequences, first at the impeachment stage and now at the criminal stage, the pillars of the law-and-order GOP, from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to implicated House Republicans to the right-wing media, will guarantee that he remains atop their party, threatening to regain power and pave the path for future Trump imitators to gain power using Trumpist methods."

#AntiDemocracyGOP
#USpolitics

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-4-2023?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lvmc

"The attack on our nation by individual Republicans seems to be a theme these days."

#AntiDemocracyGOP
#HeatherCoxRichardson
#USpolitics

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-7-2023?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lvmc

Very clear, historically contextualized description of how anti-democracy forces use bigotry to promote their authoritarian agenda. A good one to share widely!

#USpolitics
#UShistory
#authoritarian
#democracy
#AntiDemocracyGOP

https://open.substack.com/pub/jaredyatessexton/p/the-message-is-clear-symbolic-consumer?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

"Trump and the GOP and the myriad corporations, products, influencers, pseudo-celebrities, and entire ecosystem of Right Wing intolerance sells a very simple and identifiable product: an existence for white people in which white supremacy is necessary and violence is a legitimate means of protecting it."

#WhiteSupremacy
#AntiDemocracyGOP
#capitalism
#fascism
#USpolitics

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomaszimmer/p/america-is-sacrificing-its-children?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

@tzimmer_history@mastodon.

"This is why the struggle over democracy is not just one among many issues: It defines the political conflict, it is an overarching concern that transcends and permeates nearly all areas of public policy, setting the conditions for how – and in the interest of whom – the nation’s collective action problems are being tackled. America’s gun violence is a democracy issue."

#guns
#democracy
#USpolitics
#AntiDemocracyGOP

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/republicans-mitch-mcconnell-1980s-breaking-democracy.html?s=09

"This effort—to remove powers from elected representatives who are Democrats—has become the new method of disenfranchising voters and maintaining perpetual Republican political power. And it is being undertaken with alarming frequency and speed across the country. This may be the most dangerous and efficient structural attack on our democracy."

#USpolitics
#Fascism
#AntiDemocracyGOP

The gun lapel pin people in Congress are making it perfectly clear that the mass shootings in the U.S. are incited, intentional - an actual physical war against a free, democratic society. They are working to break this country from the inside. Whether the target is political or not, the reality that there is no place in the U.S. that is safe destroys our freedom to function in society.
#guns
#shooting
#AntiDemocracyGOP

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-villages-oren-miller/?s=09

A story of political vengeance by powerful business/political interests against senior citizen elected leaders in a huge Florida retirement community.

Authoritarians don't just target "others." They will come for anyone who gets in their way - even white, straight, Republican senior citizens.
#Florida
#authoritarian
#AntiDemocracyGOP