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Here in the states, a lot of the Republican party campaigns as Reagan and [George H. W.] Bush conservatives or OG conservatives, and I have to remind them that those conservatives and MAGAs (Christian nationalists, white power) are the exact same thing.
The policies of Reagan accelerated our path to the precipice of one-party autocracy. What they pushed as policy then figures largely in how we got here, with the last vestiges of US democracy tilting off the precipice into one-party autocracy.
Old fiscal responsibility / family values Republicans just wished they had another mile or two to plummet and the cold rocks below weren't looming so close.
To toss in another metaphor, they didn't just buy a ticket to ride, they used their railroad shares to vote on where to lay the rails, and where the line ends.
I'm in North Carolina, since Obama's second term we've been getting redder and redder, and it's kinda bumming me out.
It may not need to wear a red shirt, nor a blue shirt... If you hear fascism is on the rise and you think "Maga" you are naive.
You only need the first A for the fascism qualification.