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One of the most clear-headed analyses of the current political environment and the ongoing campaign for 2024, from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

"What we are building toward on Nov. 5, 2024, might have the outward trappings of an election, but it is really a show of force. What we call the Republican Party is barely a political party in any sense of the word, but a dangerous antisocial movement that has embraced many of the tenets of fascism, from calls for violence to its dehumanizing of “others” — from desperate refugees at the border to transgender youth."

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

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Strypey 2y ago

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> Baker was recommending a story condemning “tribalism,” when what we are really seeing here is the vitriol of an authoritarian movement and the increasing condemnation from those who are appalled by it

Yeah, nah. We're seeing two brands of authoritianism duking it out for control of an Empire in its post-Death Star decline, and two tribes of partisans, each only recognising the danger of one of them. True, only one of them has full control of a political party. So far...

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Strypey 2y ago

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Sanders, as usual, is bang on. Like Michael Moore, he reminds us that Agent Orange and the GoP can only make hay out of white working class anger, for as long as Democrats refuse to see its legitimate *economic* causes, and make meaningful changes to address them.

Sanders endorses re-electing Biden. Given Biden's enacted economic policy (see my recent link on #Bidenomics), this is the only sensible thing for a moderate social democrat in his position to do.

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Strypey 2y ago

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But Robert Reich reminds us that the Democrats' commitment even to its own internal democracy has hardly been unwavering;

"... such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016"

... and that;

"Without two parties committed to democratic means to resolve differences in ends, the party committed to democracy is at a tactical disadvantage. If it is to survive, eventually it, too, will sacrifice democratic means to its own ends."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/15/the-modern-republican-party-fascism-robert-reich