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Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched
The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it…
Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating stragegies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.
For example, South Carolina’s Republican Congressman Ralph Norman texted Meadows:
“Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!”
His misspelling “martial” — as in “having the military take over the country” — notwithstanding, Norman was pushing to end the American experiment in much the same way Robert E. Lee tried to do in 1861.
This is not a coincidence.
