There's only one political party in the United States -- the other one has descended into madness

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The Democrats can be deeply disappointing, but at least they believe in democracy. That other party? Not so much

DAVID MASCIOTRA
OCTOBER 3, 2020 4:00PM (UTC)

There is only one political party in the United States.

The first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump demonstrated with hideous clarity that the Democratic Party is currently running against not a conservative public policy agenda or a coherent philosophy of governance, but a collective psychotic episode, channeled through an authoritarian demagogue who is equally propelled and crippled by his own neuroses.

Gore Vidal, one of America's best chroniclers of empire, once provided instruction to a British interviewer expressing confusion over the radical hostility Republicans showed toward Barack Obama, and the former president's inability to react with equal aggression: "Obama believes the Republican Party is a political party when in fact it's a mindset, like Hitler Youth, based on hatred — religious hatred, racial hatred. When you foreigners hear the word 'conservative' you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They're not, they're fascists."

That mindset is now threatening to devour everything in its path, while its current figurehead, Donald Trump, provides encouragement to violent extremists, giving the Proud Boys — a militant far-right organization whose members have committed hate crimes — the chilling order, "Stand back and stand by."

The president's refusal to reject white supremacist movements elicited almost no clear condemnation from Republican commentators in the immediate aftermath of the debate. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate (and one of only two in Congress), pathetically speculated that Trump "misspoke," and the few Republican members of Congress who spoke out against Trump's dangerous remarks equivocated by drawing comparisons to antifa, the right wing's favorite phantom hallucination.

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https://www.salon.com/2020/10/03/theres-only-one-political-party-in-the-united-states--the-other-one-has-descended-into-madness

[Thomas Hurt]

1. It has just finally been overcome by the festering rot that has been a part of it since...

the Southern strategy. Christofascism has blossomed under the Pig. Personally, I think he means to try to use the radicalized base as a means to be a dictator. He let them off the leash, gave them "permission".

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2. Well, there are a lot more of than there are of them. And some of us are armed, too.

They'd get a big surprise if they came knocking at my door, just saying. I don't think it will come to that, but hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

[crickets]

3. The F word - there it is. More media need to call it fascism. K&R