Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.
This is like 1930s Germany all over again
Well, except that we voted out baby hands Hitler after he got into the seat of power already, which did not happen in Germany.
And the Nazi party was a new group, whereas far right conservatives today are overtaking one of the oldest political parties in the country.
And there isn’t an explicit road map of races the conservatives are trying to cleanse, just implied and practical racism, nationalism, institutionalism.
And Germany was undergoing some of the weakest points in its history, both economically and socially, while the US today is enjoying a very strong economy and shockingly strong social movements.
I agree that some conservatives are trying to turn the states into 1930s Germany, but we are not at that level and it’s been proved that the easiest way to guard against fascism is to vote against wannabe dictators.
They’ve made considerable progress towards their goal of annihilating trans people through state legislation with more than 500 bills written and are trying at every opportunity to do so at a national level. It’s written down on all their platforms and they’ve written hundreds of pages on how they’re going to accomplish it.
Modern US conservatives are trying to implicitly suppress awareness and expression of non-binary genders, but rapist president didn’t distribute an explicit list of genders that must be exterminated based on inferiority and the public is not going along with far-right conservative fear-based victimizing ideals.
The campaign against minorities is abhorrent, but not an explicit acted-upon state-run and public-supported effort to exterminate minorities.
The highest office was voted away from an incumbent conservative largely because of his bigotry.
There are parallels, but it’s not the same situation as 1930s Germany.
Right except we aren’t using wheelbarrows of cash to buy bread.