The Republican Party's flirtation with Fascism is becoming a Marriage

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) - Republicans love to hijack democratic and progressive concepts, such as “free speech,” and apply them in a hyperbolic context that is counterintuitive to the original intent. While this tactic burgeoned in recent years, Donald Trump’s presidency and toxic wake has elevated the issues and urgency to defeat this. They have cheated in elections, and changed rules of the Senate to stack the Supreme Court with ideologues, whose loyalty is greater to the Republican Party than to the constitution and republic. Republican governors have abused executive orders to defeat the legislative will of municipalities.