As usual, I agree with your posts, with 2 caveats: 1) We must ensure that we retain the House and turn the Senate blue...this is as important as choosing a nominee for the party, and indeed the choice of a nominee will affect our ability to turn Congress blue, and 2) We should stop referring to fascist enablers as 'Republicans'...whatever the ideals of the party, not one remains in the aftermath of Trump. The party simply doesn't exist...there are only outright fascists hiding behind the flag and enablers of fascism undermining our institutions. It's a painful but necessary step to call things by their true names.
You've nailed the situation as usual. The Republicans have become a toxic and autocratic brew of racist nationalism, theocratic dominionism, and plutocratic absolutism. Each of those elements considers itself something like the 'Elect' from the Calvinist religious tradition. Anybody outside their supposedly superior group is by definition damned, illegitimate, and deserving of death, slavery, and submission. That's why their politics are fascist. Together, they consider themselves the only 'true' Americans and the rest of us unworthy of civil rights and real citizenship.
If you want to know what they ultimately have in store for us, here is a primer on the "Claremont Thesis". Note that one of its adherents is Michael Anton who wrote the "Flight 93 Election" screed leading up to the 2016 election:
Echoing the other poster, we and the Democratic party at large must be blunt and aggressive in naming these elements for what they truly are - anti-American, anti-Christian (in what Christ called us to do), and anti-life because their politics and policies kill people and will kill America. They've justified putting innocent people in cages and have their sights on everyone else who is not worthy. It's time to fight - for yourself, for your family, for the future, and for America.
As usual, I agree with your posts, with 2 caveats: 1) We must ensure that we retain the House and turn the Senate blue...this is as important as choosing a nominee for the party, and indeed the choice of a nominee will affect our ability to turn Congress blue, and 2) We should stop referring to fascist enablers as 'Republicans'...whatever the ideals of the party, not one remains in the aftermath of Trump. The party simply doesn't exist...there are only outright fascists hiding behind the flag and enablers of fascism undermining our institutions. It's a painful but necessary step to call things by their true names.
You've nailed the situation as usual. The Republicans have become a toxic and autocratic brew of racist nationalism, theocratic dominionism, and plutocratic absolutism. Each of those elements considers itself something like the 'Elect' from the Calvinist religious tradition. Anybody outside their supposedly superior group is by definition damned, illegitimate, and deserving of death, slavery, and submission. That's why their politics are fascist. Together, they consider themselves the only 'true' Americans and the rest of us unworthy of civil rights and real citizenship.
If you want to know what they ultimately have in store for us, here is a primer on the "Claremont Thesis". Note that one of its adherents is Michael Anton who wrote the "Flight 93 Election" screed leading up to the 2016 election:
http://virginiasocialscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Chew-10.pdf
Echoing the other poster, we and the Democratic party at large must be blunt and aggressive in naming these elements for what they truly are - anti-American, anti-Christian (in what Christ called us to do), and anti-life because their politics and policies kill people and will kill America. They've justified putting innocent people in cages and have their sights on everyone else who is not worthy. It's time to fight - for yourself, for your family, for the future, and for America.