Fascism Watch Catch-Up: Fundamentalist Fascism

[solarbird]

This is going to be something akin to a list post, if not a true list post. Sorry, I’m not fond either.

I never know in these things – should I start low key and build up, or lead with an overhand smash and fill out details? Eh, I’m not even sure I have time for that. So here’s a bunch of stories on what the fundamentalist-dominated MAGAts and their Republican Party have been up to the last few weeks.

Heritage Foundation: Make Recreational Sex Banned Again. No, really. Yes, they mean it. They always have.

North Carolina Republican nominee for governor: ‘I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’

I talk a lot about how the fundamentalist doesn’t give a single fuck about objective reality and how they define truth to be whatever furthers the movement. Katie Britt’s false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden is a great example. (The trafficking happened in Mexico City, not in the US; it happened during the Bush II administration, not the Biden administration.) (See also: The Fundie Baby Voice.)

Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 again: “Department of Life”: Trump allies plot abortion crackdown for second term (and please tell me you don’t think it’s just them: 145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill, Republicans’ Absurdist Reproductive Policies Are Coming for Us All, Remember The Stem Cell Research Controversy?, The GOP’s Next Target? Prenatal Tests, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson rallies with anti-abortion advocates at March for Life)

The GOP Is Too Scared to Let South Dakota Vote on Abortion – Gov. Kristi Noem’s new “emergency” law is meant to kneecap a pro-choice referendum. Red state after red state, the GOP changes laws to stop the people from overturning their fundamentalist-backed abortion and birth-control bans. As you hear a lot these days, “that’s because they want to rule you, not to represent you.”

Law Dork: This week, we faced all that the Dobbs justices unleashed. I wouldn’t agree with him on “all” but he talks about some.

Here’s a rundown on the Society for American Civic Renewal, an organisation of very wealthy Dominionists whose goal for the US isn’t the American 1950s, but the South African 1950s. (see also Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’) See also: Donald Trump may not believe in God, but he still plans to turn America into a Christian theocracy, mostly to take and maintain power.

Project 2025 talks about how they’re going to largely end biomedical research, particularly when it comes to “leftist” science.

Anti-abortion centers raked in $1.4bn in year Roe fell, including federal money. These “pregnancy crisis centres” have always been scams and always in the hunt for Federal bucks. Now they’re getting more of it.

‘We are losing our kids to a satanic cult,’ Sen. Tommy Tuberville warns during Utah campaign stop, mostly because this refers really to a generation where more are LGBTQ than Republican and they’ll do literally anything to stop it.

I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to understand Trump’s base − they believe, more than ever, he is a savior. It’s pretty lightweight if you know much about them and their movement, but if you don’t, give it a glance.

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Comments

[ckd]

IIRC, the trafficking case happened during the George W. Bush administration.

[solarbird]

That's not what I read but I'll try to find a source again. (Until then I'll modify to "a previous Republican")

[ckd]

AP article says "2004-2008" (and that this was confirmed by a Britt spokesperson).

[solarbird]

Hadn't had time to get to it yet, so thanks.

[ckd]

You're welcome! I usually try to check/source things like that on my initial comment, but when I can't they get "IIRC" (sometimes I don't recall correctly, and if I'm on the bus I may not be able to easily check and source).

[conuly]

North Carolina Republican nominee for governor: ‘I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’

Back when his own ancestors were getting lynched left and right? I mean, okay...?

[solarbird]

I KNOW RIGHT?!

He's just another one of those fucks who thinks he's immune to every-fucking-thing.

[conuly]

If he has no self-respect he might at least try for a sense of self-preservation! Or the other way around, honestly.