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There’s Always Another Cynical Battle in Our Stupid Culture War
The Republican Party is a fascist death cult. This is not hyperbole but rather a simple statement of fact, borne out by the GOP platform adopted by the 2020 Republican National Convention and submitted for the public record:
“RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda….”
The Trump White House never had a coherent policy for dealing with covid-19, if it even had any interest at all in developing one, leaning instead on an inane but deadly promise of herd immunity (with conservative projections under such a policy adding up to at least 1,385,800 American dead) and punting the national response to a global pandemic to the ill-equipped states.
Thus, the succeeding Biden administration inherited a steaming pile of states’ rights slathered with an accelerant of disinformation and conspiracy theories from the federal level. Republican lawmakers just fought in lockstep against the Democratic legislative majority’s American Rescue Plan, even as a Morning Consult/Politico poll concluded that 76% of American voters like the bill, including 60% of Republicans.
Republicans love to regurgitate that old Rahm Emanuel quote about never letting a disaster go to waste because every accusation is a…