A democracy in receivership
“The Nazis did not persecute or murder people solely based on hair or eye-color,” states the Holocaust Encyclopedia. That said, “The Nazis believed that they had to protect Germans from inferior races. To stay strong, they thought they had to remain racially pure.”
The United States of Trump is not there yet. But if the GOP gets its way, political purity will be the order of the day first. We’re not talking about the kinds of faddish purity tests and language policing that arise and disappear regularly on college campuses and draw hair-on-fire commentary from Fox News. We’re talking about the kinds of purity (and loyalty) tests that secure one a job in the Trump 2.0 administration.
The GOP has rejected democracy. The Republican minority has leveraged what power it has to acquire more for itself (permanently); overstepped the traditional checks and balances in our system; fired government watchdogs; set about putting large chunks of government into receivership; engineered a Supreme Court “bound and determined to undermine the American constitutional order“; eliminated the very notion of political corruption; and pardoned men convicted of an attempt to overthrow the government.
Add in the contruction of concentration camps, efforts to void birthright citizenship and denaturalize naturalized citizens, to deny the vote to “never residents,” and to deport immigrants without due process to third countries like Eswatini, and the Trump gang is headed toward creating an entire class of stateless persons, either officially or functionally. Ridding the nation of undesirables is all part of slow-motion political purification. The GOP is on track to define American citizenship down to a political analog of “Aryan.”
In the attempts to prevent “never residents” from local voting in state and local elections we’ve seen in North Carolina and now Arizona, the GOP talking point is that never-residents “don’t have skin in the game.” Read that as you will.
First they came for the civil servants, then they came for the immigrants, then they came for the never-residents, then for etc. One can see what’s at the bottom of the slippery slope MAGA Republicans are constructing.
White, male, Christian property owners only, baby! MAGA!!!
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