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Thom's blog
How the GOP is Turning Up the Dial on "Hate & Fear"
 Strongmen are winning elections, from Putin in Russia, to Orban in Hungary, to Bolsonaro in Brazil, with an anti-LGBTQ agenda: Republicans here are implementing the same strategy. Ron DeSantis, the most likely GOP candidate for president in 2024, has gone to war with trans people and Disney, saying he's doing so to protect Florida's children. It's a slick trick that seems to be working for him and his Republican colleagues, and is thus spreading to other states. Authoritarian politicians in electoral democracies typically exploit people's fear to gain political power, and then use that power to destroy the democracy itself from within. But first they have to create that fear by building up a straw-man villain.Republicans today are running that strategy to try to turn America, like Hungary, into a strongman oligarchy. All they need to run the con is to identify a minority group and convince people they're a threat to the nation. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: How the GOP Is Turning Up the Dial on Hate & Fear
Tweet: " Apart from the election, Hungary also held a referendum today on whether or not to ban sexually explicit media in sex-ed and sex-reassignment information targeting school children..." by Visegrád 24.
Quote: " As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Hour Two: There is a Deepening Scary Global Food Crisis Coming Soon
Article: " Egypt" by Wikipedia.
Death Cult Alert! Fox-So-Called News Talked About Ivermectin 300 times Then Ignored New Study of It's Ineffectiveness
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