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The American Summer When Fascism Emerged From the Closet
They used to try to hide the itch, but no more; the levers are being pulled one after another.
It’s not one thing. It’s just a general sense of malaise. That is how I felt when I had COVID in 2022 — and lots of sneezing, like 200 times in one day. It all cleared up in three days, though. Something similar has begun in our nation of late.
The right-wing malaise that had been contentedly grazing off the possibility of another Trump run for president is now actively shedding. The contagion has spread to every institution in which Republicans or conservatives have a majority or near majority. Since Democrats saved Mike Johnson from the Marjorie Taylor Greene guillotine, he has grown a pair of balls that would make a bull proud.
Little Mikey has been Goebbels-like in his obsession for all things Trump, and he seems now determined to use the final half five months before election day. All of the powers granted to him by the Constitution as the third most influential person in our government, to shred the Democrats, democracy, and anyone or thing that demonstrated even the slightest hint of anti-Trump sentiments.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday to begin setting an ambitious agenda…
