This authoritarian crackdown is what the GOP has been working toward the whole time. [View all]

[paulkienitz]

They were working toward this in his first term, they were working toward it in Dubya's administration, they were absolutely working toward this when Reagan was alive, and some of them date back all the way to Nixon. The big donors, the foundations, the think tanks, the publishing houses, the talk shows and news channels — the whole machine of right wing policy and propaganda. This was their end goal the whole time.

We know this because of how they have focused on the Supreme Court for that entire history. For decade after decade they have pushed forward a particular kind of justice, sometimes cultivating candidates practically back to their school days, like Kavanaugh. And now that the court is packed with that particular kind of justice, and Trump has arrived to spearhead that push to authoritarian rule, they are finally cashing their investment, and look at the rulings the Supreme Court is now handing them.

As I've said before, the push to fascism is not coming from Trump. It is coming from the Republican Party. (Trump doesn't really want to be a fascist dictator — what he wants to be is a medieval king.)