We see that Marjorie Tayor Greene says she didn’t read the Big Beautiful Bill and now is speaking out against parts of it. Other Republicans apparently didn’t read it either. See “Marjorie Taylor Greene admits she also didn’t read the GOP megabill she voted for.”
Not reading a major bill before you vote on it is one thing. How about not accurately reading who a president is, and what he intends to do before you support him? It isn’t as if it was a mystery. Everyone knew about Trump’t personality, but what he planned to do once elected was also spelled out in detail in Project 2025. (Read: 'Literally running the show': Shock report reveals full reach of Project 2025”)
Today Thom Hartmann wrote “The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free.”
Note the subtitle: “How ordinary Americans became numb to authoritarianism—step by chilling step.”
I recommend that you read the Substack and as you do ask yourself how many Republican members of Congress became numb to authoritarianism and still are. They didn’t read the Big Beautiful Bill, but how many didn’t “read” Donald Trump? Did they not “read” that he fully intended to become the dictator of a fascist country? Trump has picked enablers to serve under him so they endorse this, but members of Congress were elected. Do some of them have buyer’s remorse. If they were, as Hartmann put it, numb to pending authoritarianism then, are they still numb to the Trumpian authoritarianism that has taken over the country?
The same question can be asked about the Republican members of the Supreme Court with the possible exception of Thomas and Alito. They may want a fascist country run by a dictator. but do Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett?
There are certainly many American’s who want us to be a fascist country led by Donald Trump but they are not the majority. Some polls show his support at about 48%. We don’t know how many of those supporters really comprehend what it would be like to live under fascist rule. It is difficult to figure this out from polls like this:
My sense is that as long as a person believes they will be in the safe and favored group, the in group, and they have no empathy or compassion for the unfavored and endangered out group, they will support Trump’s fascistic regime.
The crucial question involves how many people want the United States to have, to quote Hartmann, normalized evil. Will enough members of Congress, the judiciary, the military, and citizenry rebel against this to stop Trump’s Hitlerian-like blitzkrieg to take over the county and impose evil fascist rule?
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