The largest slaughter of American Jews in modern history was carried out by a fascist right-winger after Donald Trump said:
"Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks, to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global interest powers, her special interest friends, and her donors."
You don't even need the special Nazi decoder ring to know what Trump was talking about. Like when Republicans constantly mention George Soros and "international" Jews, as they are this week in ads running on TV and Facebook about the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
We learned just this week that another American fascist was planning to murder Jews in the Midwest including Michigan's openly lesbian Attorney General. Five people in a fascist group from Fresno were also arrested this week for seven terrorist bombings in that area.
Meanwhile, the hottest topic among Republicans is starting a second Civil War through Red states seceding from the union. A national divorce. And if they can't get that, they'll just rig elections. It's what fascists do.
Republican-controlled states across the nation are aggressively purging Black voters from their rolls -- an estimated 17 million before five Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized the practice in 2018 and tens of millions more since -- to hang onto power in Red states with large Black populations.
In Florida and Texas the governors of those states have had Black ex-felons who thought they could legally vote arrested and paraded before news cameras to intimidate other Black people considering voting.
Billboards saying "Voter Fraud Is A Felony!" with pictures of white police officers or a judge's gavel popped up across Red states in both 2020 and 2022, leading to a drop in Black voting in many places, particularly Florida.
Fascists, after all, think of democracy as old-fashioned and quaint: something to give lip service but not to seriously practice.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump recently proposed legislation outlawing trans people altogether, his very own Paragraph 175.
It's become an unending parade of horribles, that are accelerating.
A married woman in Florida with a deformed fetus can't get an abortion because Ron DeSantis has successfully intimidated every doctor in the state: she's being forced to give birth to a baby that will die in minutes.
And in Florida, Channel 8 News reports:
"Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines."
These are not isolated events that exist separate from each other. They're part of a whole.
And we all must speak up, before it's too late. We must call this what it is: fascism.
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