Paul Krugman busts GOP as much closer to fascism than Democrats are to socialis
Tom Boggioni at the Raw Story
Paul Krugman busts GOP as much closer to fascism than Democrats are to socialism
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/paul-krugman-busts-gop-as-much-closer-to-fascism-than-democrats-are-to-socialism/amp/
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"Leading Republicans, however, routinely describe Democrats, even those on the right of their party, as socialists. Indeed, all indications are that denunciations of Democrats’ ‘socialist’ agenda will be front and center in the general election campaign. And everyone in the news media accepts this as the normal state of affairs,” Krugman wrote. “Which goes to show the extent to which Republican extremism has been accepted simply as a fact of life, barely worth mentioning.”
Adding, “To see what I mean, imagine the media firestorm, the screams about lost civility, we’d experience if any prominent Democrat described Republicans as a party of fascists, let alone if Democrats made that claim the centerpiece of their national campaign,” the economist made his case for Republican fascism.
“The other day The Times published an Op-Edthat used analysis of party platforms to place U.S. political parties on a left-right spectrum along with their counterparts abroad,” he explained. “The study found that the G.O.P. is far to the right of mainstream European conservative parties. It’s even to the right of anti-immigrant parties like Britain’s UKIP and France’s National Rally. Basically, if we saw something like America’s Republicans in another country, we’d classify them as white nationalist extremists.”
“One might even argue that the G.O.P. stands out among the West’s white nationalist parties for its exceptional willingness to crash right through the guardrails of democracy,” he continued. “Extreme gerrymandering, naked voter suppression and stripping power from offices the other party manages to win all the same — these practices seem if anything more prevalent here than in the failing democracies of Eastern Europe.”
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