Stephan: I clearly am not the only analyst who sees the implications of the Great Schism Trend. If you look at the social outcome data it is obvious that life for ordinary people in Red states is significantly inferior to life in Blue states. States like Texas, for instance, run by a fascist oligarchy is essentially a failed state, implementing policies remarkably like Russia under Putin. Personally, I think if the Red states want to become anocracies and the people of the Red states vote for such developments, so be it. What concerns me is that the Red states will try, as this article lays out, to use the federal level of government to impose on the Blue states the White supremacy christofascism the Red states are embracing. For example, it makes the governments of Red states crazy that Blue states support gender and racial equality, and want to educate their children in public schools using actual facts to do that instead of indoctrinating them in christofascist racist nonsense in religious and charter schools. Basically the same thing Putin is now doing in Russian schools.
Christofascist Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to reporters before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy.
The case was just the latest example of how red states, supported by Republican-appointed judges, are engaging in a multi-front offensive to seize control of national policy even while Democrats hold the White House and nominally control both the House and Senate. The red states are moving social policy sharply to the right within their borders on issues from abortion to LGBTQ rights and classroom censorship, while simultaneously working to hobble the ability of either the federal government or their own largest metro areas to set a different course.
To a degree unimaginable even a decade ago, this broad offensive increasingly […]
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