GOP dreams of a return to Jim Crow -- and not just through racist voting laws

[marmar]

GOP dreams of a return to Jim Crow — and not just through racist voting laws
Republicans come ever closer to embracing overt white supremacy. At least that would be honest

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
MARCH 17, 2021 9:03AM


(Salon) It is the year 2021. But Republicans and the right-wing movement are trying to pull the American people back to the past.

Their ultimate destination? It could be Jim Crow white supremacist America of the 1950s. It could be the end of Reconstruction in 1876 – or even a time before that.

In that sense, the Republican Party and its allies and followers are time-breakers, not content with harmless nostalgia and happy-pill lies about the past. Their goal? To radically remake society in their own grotesque vision where white, right-wing "Christians" — men, by definition — rule America unopposed and for all time.

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Zachary Roth of the Brennan Center for Justice describes this racialized "legislative anti-democracy" and what it entails:

It's upon us: a wave of legislation, in states across the country, aimed at making voting harder. The Brennan Center has tallied over 250 bills in 43 states this year that would restrict access to the ballot. Many would reverse the expansion of vote by mail, which helped lead to the soaring turnout of 2020, or would tighten ID requirements.

But the latest assault on voting shouldn't be seen in isolation. Some of the same Republican state lawmakers behind these measures are also taking steps to suppress any form of democracy that threatens them — afraid, it seems, that the more say voters have in any form, the worse their side will fare. …

It's hard to ignore that this explosion of what we might call "legislative anti-democracy" is coming from some of the same people who helped stoke an even more troubling effort to overturn the will of the people. At least 14 Republican state lawmakers attended the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally that led to the Capitol insurrection, and they continue to serve. At least one, State Sen. Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania, has been a leader in his state's effort to pass restrictive voting laws.

These attacks are targeting those Americans at the base of the Democratic Party: young people, the poor and working-class, college students, urban residents and nonwhite people. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/17/gop-dreams-of-a-return-to-jim-crow--and-not-just-through-racist-voting-laws/

[HUAJIAO]

1. All a well-organized plan.. Somewhere I read that ALEC, among others, is behind it,

or at least supporting and planning the war on voting rights.

[appalachiablue]

3. Christo- Fascist White Ethno State

[Tommymac]

4. Trump forced their hand and has made them over confident.

This Jim Crow movement was coming in the next decade regardless.

If they had waited until 2024 or 2028, they could have quietly gotten control of the entire local, state and national judiciary and legislatures, as well as all the media, and been an unstoppable juggernaut.

But Trump was a charismatic wild card that made them over confident.

They have shown their cards a little too early, they do NOT control power in all 50 states, the media is NOT a totally compliant pet, and now We progressives have got to make them pay. It's going to be a hard fight, but at least we have a very good chance to make them scuttle back into their holes. In 5 or 8 years I'm not sure we would have.

[BobTheSubgenius]

5. As jokes go, this movement is not at all funny.

It used to be possible to deride and mock some of their....I'll say "antics"....and be disgusted by others. Now is the time, or even past time, to be worried. I honestly once thought that once their intentions were exposed to the light of day, the sunlight would do what it often does, and kill whatever is exposed too long.

There is now no way that the general public can't know this, and apparently not enough of them are opposing it. The Confederacy is making a comeback? How is this possible?