Stephan: If you listened to or watched the 6 January Committee hearings today, you heard a former insider, Cassidy Hutchinson, describe the mindset, the behavior, and the intentions of a man so psychologically damaged, so self-centered that he throws plates of food at the wall when upset, and is okay with the idea that his vice president may get murdered by a mob of his followers. What amazes me is that someone this sick mentally and emotionally still has loyal staffers and followers. So what are these people trying for? They want to make America an anocracy like Hungary. We are a nation in desperately difficult times. Read this well-researched article and think, would I like to live in a country like Hungary today? Then figure out what you can do to make sure that doesn't happen.
“Why are we doing this?” Miklós Szánthó, an organizer of CPAC Hungary, said. “We are doing this to make the liberals’ nightmare true.” Illustration by Tyler Comrie
The Republican Party hasn’t adopted a new platform since 2016, so if you want to know what its most influential figures are trying to achieve—what, exactly, they have in mind when they talk about an America finally made great again—you’ll need to look elsewhere for clues. You could listen to Donald Trump, the Party’s de-facto standard-bearer, except that nobody seems to have a handle on what his policy goals are, not even Donald Trump. You could listen to the main aspirants to his throne, such as Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, but this would reveal less about what they’re for than about what they’re against: overeducated élites, apart from themselves and their allies; “wokeness,” whatever they’re taking that to mean at the moment; the overzealous wielding of government power, unless their side is doing the wielding. Besides, one person can tell you only so much. A more efficient way to […]
