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Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Fascists now control Congress — and we can’t afford to pretend otherwise

Author:     Chauncey Devega
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     January 18, 2023
 Link: Fascists now control Congress — and we can’t afford to pretend otherwise
Stephan:  

Today, as I was going through my usual daily media survey and saw that NBC had confirmed the story of George Santos -- one of the several names he uses -- scamming a disabled homeless veteran out of the $3,000 collected to pay the vet bill for the man's dying dog, and then read that Santos had been appointed by Kevin McCarthy to not one but two Congressional committees, I realized that the Republican Party is no longer a political party interested in good governance to foster wellbeing. It is now an openly christofascist political power operation that has little or nothing to do with wellbeing fostering governance. Apparently, I am not the only person who has recognized this. The question is do American voters recognize this yet? Based on the polling I have seen I don't think so.

The new leaders of the House Republicans. George Santos — the name he uses for politics — and Marjorie Taylor Greene
Credit: Win McNamee / Getty

Just over two years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of Donald Trump’s followers attacked the U.S. Capitol as part of his coup attempt aimed. not just at nullifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election but ending multiracial democracy in America.

Vastly outnumbered, lacking reinforcements, failed by their leaders and with limited resources overall, the Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers bravely fought back against Trump’s mob. Beyond the physical stress and violence, Black and brown officers were also assaulted by Trump’s followers with racial slurs and symbols and acts of white supremacist hatred.

After hours of hand-to-hand medieval style combat that one police officer said was more intense than what he experienced in Iraq, Trump’s attack force overran the defenders and rampaged throughout the Capitol, eager to hunt, kidnap and kill Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats and Republicans alike who refused to participate […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 5:31 am

    The article states: ‘One of Trump’s most important accomplishments “has been to bludgeon the political attention of the country into submission.”

    This is not true. What has occurred is that those at the top, who supported, encouraged, and orchestrated this event have remained unaccountable. The article further questions: “What does justice mean in America when Donald Trump and his allies and acolytes not only go unpunished for their evident crimes but now control one house of Congress?”

    These are the real questions. It’s not as if the populus is not watching. What lessons can they draw from these events? Justice (like taxes) is only for the “little people”. Those at the top play by a different set of rules.