Marjorie Taylor Greene's Republican Party Hates Democrats, Democracy and America

[Zorro]

Have Republicans looked inside their tent lately? If they removed the kooks, they’d have a lot of empty space. The truth is that Greene’s no outlier. She’s at the party’s center.

You’ve got to see both sides: In 2021, the United States has one major political party and one authoritarian, white nationalist cult cosplaying as a political party.

If we want to preserve this fragile but vital experiment called democracy, it’s time to acknowledge, confront and call out this obvious, painful truth. One side, regardless of its flaws, is still committed to the democratic project. The other side — the one whose leader just encouraged a failed, violent insurrection at the nation’s capitol and whose other leaders don’t think he should be held to any account for that — has mutated into a counter-majoritarian extremist force stuffed with kooks, cranks, crazies and racists.

Don’t take my word for it. A recent study to measure the health of the world’s democracies found the Republican Party to be “far more illiberal than almost all other governing parties in democracies.” And that was in 2018 — before Donald Trump and a majority of elected Republicans promoted the big lie that led to the siege of our capitol and before the party sent a gun-toting, mouth-breathing, openly QAnon promoting and Jew and Muslim loathing representative to Washington.

The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found that the GOP now resembles ruling nationalist parties in autocratic societies open to demonizing and encouraging violence against their opponents. Comparisons are made to Hungary, where leader Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party have created the first non-democracy in the European Union. Orban is an authoritarian leader heading towards single party rule. However, the GOP is different from Fidesz: experts say the GOP is actually more hostile to minority rights, no small feat considering Orban’s obsessive anti-Muslim bigotry and immigrant fear-mongering.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greenes-republican-party-hates-democrats-democracy-and-america

[SunSeeker]

1. Republicans are arguing online that the Constitution calls for a republic, not a democracy.

As if the two are mutually exclusive. It nuts.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Yeah, that's been their code-word for anti-democracy...

... for many years. Never mind that we have a Democratic republic, which they obviously despise if it goes against their established power and culture.

I had a recent Trump-supporting coworker who openly said that he opposed democracy and he wanted a return to a religious monarchy, supposedly for the sake of "stability".

I'll give that guy some credit for saying it out loud for once, but he can eat sh*t and die otherwise.

[SunSeeker]

3. Holy shit, a religious monarchy? That's what we fought a revolution to overthrow.

It wasn't "stable" in 1776. What makes him think it will be stable now?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. He was one of those idiots who insisted that Nazis...

... were the major socialists in Germany too, strictly because it was part of their party name. Never mind that several German industrialists favored the Nazis because of their paranoia about the actual socialists and communists.

He bragged about his knowledge of history, but he mostly read about ancient Rome from what I could gather. EDIT: With favor shown to their tyrannical leaders.