'Welcome to fascism': Senior Republican official in Arizona warns of Trump attempts to steal future

[Carlitos Brigante]

https://news.yahoo.com/welcome-fascism-senior-republican-official-172706688.html

A Republican whose career in the Arizona state legislature will end after he defied Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election agrees that the efforts of Maga Republicans to seize control of voting systems and the power to declare election results invalid are “fascism”.

Rusty Bowers made the characterisation while describing a Republican-led piece of legislation that if passed would have granted politicians in Arizona’s capital the ability to override the will of voters and engineer a new election. In one of his last acts as speaker of Arizona’s state House, Mr Bowers doomed the bill by requiring all 12 committees in the chamber to review the bill before action is taken.

“The legislature, after the election, could dismiss the election,” he told CNN, describing the bill. “And I said, welcome to fascism.”

[DFW]

1. Tom Lehrer's song predicted this almost 60 years ago

They've got to be protected
All their rights respected
'Til somebody we like can be elected