In their mad quest for power: The Republicans were willing to create a dystopian society.

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Lie about everything, create conspiracy theories. Create a propaganda cable channel and call it a news channel.

Use propaganda against their own voters in order to completely control them.

Call the real news the fake news, call the fake news the real news.

Corrupt the rule of law by protecting people in power from accountability and then use the law to attack the people who try to hold them accountable.

Block all commonsense gun laws as our children are being slaughtered in their class rooms, the dead bodies of their teachers laying on top of the children.

Use the full power of the government to take complete control of woman's reproductive health.

Pass laws that block people from voting. Accept help from foreign governments, our enemies to help win elections.

Take healthcare away from people.

Take care of the rich, destroy the safety net for average Americans.

Protect their leaders who are unqualified, mentally unfit, nuts, at all cost.

Gut the government so it can no longer protect the people.

Create dystopian laws like Citizens United. Money is free speech, corporations are people.

Protect the constitution when it fits their needs, ignore it when it doesn't. Break their oath of office leaving the oath meaningless.

Welcome to the United States of Dystopia.

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1. Yes,

and that's the short list.

It has happened to other countries, but this is the American Brand(tm). Like the word or not, it is creeping Fascism.

The GOP knows it is obsolete. They, and those they actually represent, are not going to bow out gracefully or even try to transform a party that is no longer relevant, (obviously) or even a countervailing opposition to democrats. In fact, the way it is playing out now, they aren't anti-democrat, they are anti-democracy and they don't even blush or try to really cover that up. It's in their every action.

Being for industry and major corporations is one thing, (and a problem in itself) but to abandon the people is a definite BREECH OF OATH. Their obligations are covered in the Preamble to the Constitution. They are sworn to the welfare of the people. Oh, but they have denigrated the word welfare, haven't they? It does not mean well being to them because, perhaps, that's not what they want for We The People at all.

A weakened, devastated country, (economically and politically) is fertile ground for despotism. The GOP is sowing in the fields of Fascism all the time, now. Is anybody really surprised?

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2. Add: Stack the courts with lifetime appointments of right-wing ideologues.

Per the New York Times, 3/14/2020:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/trump-appeals-court-judges.amp.html
A Conservative Agenda Unleashed on the Federal Courts
President Trump’s imprint on the nation’s appeals courts has been swift and historic. He has named judges with records on a range of issues important to Republicans — and to his re-election.

By Rebecca R. Ruiz, Robert Gebeloff, Steve Eder and Ben Protess
March 14, 2020

President Trump has appointed judges to the federal appeals courts at a record-setting pace, naming nearly as many as former President Barack Obama did over two terms.

The Trump appointees are far less diverse than Mr. Obama’s, with two-thirds of them white men.
The new judges have been selected for their rock-solid conservative credentials, including at least seven that had previous jobs with Mr. Trump’s campaign or his administration.

All but eight had ties to the Federalist Society, a legal group with views once considered on “the fringe.”

Now, as he seeks a second term, Mr. Trump can boast of having named more than a quarter of all judges on the appeals courts, 51 to date.
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