Our Republican Leadership is Prepared to abandon Democracy and Embrace Autocracy
Why is America’s Republican leadership continuing to support Trump in the face of clear evidence of impeachable and un-democratic conduct…
Our Republican Leadership is Prepared to abandon Democracy and Embrace Autocracy
Why is America’s Republican leadership continuing to support Trump in the face of clear evidence of impeachable and un-democratic conduct? This is all about Republicans being ready to abandon democracy for autocracy. They have grown desperate that they have not been successful in turning back advances in rights and freedoms for non-white people by only winning some elections, and they believe that future demographic trends will make this even harder.
The Republicans won’t abandon Trump because they are intoxicated by his continuing demonstration of how easy it is in America (and elsewhere) to simply disdain and disregard democratic norms. They want to see how much farther Trump can push this.
Our now full-blown reactionary Republican Party would be very, very happy to see Trump pave the way for America becoming much more like Russia where government and industry have been taken-over by a thugish, criminal elite as the Soviet Union fell apart. The Russian culture has been kept very homongenous and traditional, and people know better than to assert rights and freedoms.
This uber-wealthy criminal elite quickly expanded its ambitions and has become a major global force in undermining democracy worldwide, insinuating their financial muscle into global financial markets and by lending to, and laundering money through, corrupt business leaders and politicians like Trump (and now much of the Republican leadership).
Republicans and conservatives everywhere have been brought (bought) into a Russian oligarch-dominated worldwide criminal-finance system that has been further leveraged by Russia’s and many rogue states’ investments in social media and related public influence enterprises that feed endlessly divisive and inflamatory propaganda into nation-states worldwide. WIth their great luck in Trump’s election and the damage he is inflcting on our nation and on our influence world-wide, this global criminal “syndicate” is producing incredible results and so there is no incentve to abandon it or Trump.
This is what we are fighting. It’s not just a ressurection of our own American civil war and the fight over basic democratic values at home, it is a major re-escalation of the worldwide struggle to sustain and grow democratic values, institutions, and societies in the face of forces determined to suppress democratic impulses and to spread and consolidate autocratic control over nation-states and the world’s natural and human resources.
Trump and Trumpism must be decisively defeated in the upcoming elections. America must be reclaimed for democracy and human rights. And then we must reassert the power of democratic values worldwide. If we, America, fail in this, we and the world risk heading into a very bleak future.