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During the 2020 presidential race, a wide range of Donald Trump critics — including arch-conservative columnist/author Mona Charen (who worked in the Reagan White House) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described “democratic socialist” — slammed Trump as dangerously authoritarian. They warned that U.S. democracy itself was on the line. Now-President Joe Biden won the election, but the threat of authoritarianism was evident when Trump tried to overturn the election results and a violent far-right mob attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. Four months into Biden’s presidency, journalist Susan B. Glasser examines the state of American democracy this week in an article for The New Yorker — and she warns that there is a lot to be worried about.
“Far from embracing Biden’s call for unity,” Glasser explains, “Republicans remain in thrall to […]
I believe the GOP remains in thrall with the money they were able to make under the last President. And I believe that’s why they’ve stepped further into extreme voting laws, laws that are restrictive when it comes to women. At some point, or an accumulation of moments, they realized they were going to be cut off from their ‘high’ living. That’s not to say there aren’t Dems who are doing the same. But not with the level of unprecedented meanness. People of color, women and immigrants are being pushed back in time.
We lost our Democracy a long time ago. We have been living in an Oligarchy type of Monopoly system run by the rich Capitalist Pigs mostly in the Republican party for decades now.