GOP Is Setting the Stage for a Possible Coup in 2024 While Dems Ignore Threat

Yoav Litvin,    –  truthout

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The United States is continuing its reactionary response to the 2020 uprisings for Black life. Republican representatives have enhanced endeavours at redistricting, escalated draconian concentrating on of reproductive rights, and continue on to attack training and guides on racism, slavery and white supremacy LGBTQ issues and content depicting miscarriages, hysterectomies and ache all through labor.

These suitable-wing attempts are fueled by social media and a climbing embrace of conspiracy theories. Regrettably, however most likely predictably, the Democratic Party has been not able or unwilling to mount a progressive retort.

Truthout spoke with Anthony DiMaggio, associate professor of political science at Lehigh College, about the infiltration of fascism into present-day political and media landscapes in the U.S. as outlined in his new ebook, Soaring Fascism in America: It Can Come about Below (Routledge 2022).

Yoav Litvin: How is your book related in 2022? Didn’t Donald Trump shed in 2020?

Anthony DiMaggio: By dropping in 2020, Trump […]