Rachel Magnificently Did Tonight What She Does Best [View all]
She nailed how fascism has morphed across history from Italy's Mussolini to the Koch front Tea Party, to the Q Party, to the DeSantis Harvard Operative of Stealth racism, to the Orbans, to the Bannon Party with its now female face, Georgia Mussolini Meloni.
Then Rachel magnificently connected fascism to sham, even violent elections, to justify invading another country, to promote strongman rule to nullify the power to the people and, in the end, to end democracy by violently mocking and twisting it into making the people give up their power, by convincing them they'll lose it anyway, by stealth or violence.
Rachel explains its simplest level:
"If they do not want your vote to determine who is in power, it means that they don't want to use that power to try to meet your needs, to try to earn your vote... Separating power from the preferences of the people. And instead just ruling over the people by force for their own purposes and to meet their own needs instead the needs of the people..."