An international #fascist movement
— led by Russia, Hungary, and China
— is on the march worldwide, and 🎯America is in its crosshairs.

Case in point: Ohio Republican Senator and maximally rich dude J.D. Vance,
who dresses up his Trump/Putin toadyism in elegant garb

In an article for the m Financial Times, Vance recently wrote:

“We owe it to our European partners to be honest:
Our generosity in Ukraine is coming to an end.
Europeans should regard the conclusion of the war there as an imperative. ...
And Europe should consider how exactly it is going to live with Russia when the war in Ukraine is over.”

⭐️The watershed moment in American history that led to this was when five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled in #CitizensUnited (and three other decisions) that 🔥bribing US politicians is no longer bribery or political corruption 🔥
but, instead, is merely
“First Amendment-protected free speech.”

The cash that rightwing billionaires, foreign governments, and corporations are stuffing into corrupt politicians’ pockets isn’t 💰“money,”
the rightwing majority on the Court ruled:
it’s First Amendment protected “free speech.”

Those corporations aren’t (to paraphrase John Marshall) lifeless, soulless creations of the law:
they are, Republicans on the Court said,
🥺“persons” with a constitutional right to free speech.

👉All this made us ripe for the picking by foreign governments that see the very ongoing existence of American democracy as a threat to the legitimacy of their own oligarchies.

To the point of Vance and Greene, Justice John Paul Stevens,
in his Citizens United dissent,
warned us that his five conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court had not only 💥thrown the door open to American billionaires and corporations corrupting our politicians 💥and political process:
they also, he wrote,
🔥rolled out the welcome mat to foreign governments.🔥

“If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions.

“Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by ‘Tokyo Rose’ during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders.”

#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-americas-new-tokyo-rose-331?r=3b1sh&triedRedirect=true