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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the GOP has been evil for decades. But the fascist shift of the past 9 years wasn’t something they expected.

kinda disagree with where you take this line of thought - they've certainly been evil for decades, at least since the southern strategy - fosho - but the fascist shift is something they've been building for a decade+ since they realized demographics were not going to keep white people a numerical majority.

So they began a long campaign of gerrymandering (too many examples to begin to describe), disenfranchisement (tens of thousands of black votes discarded in florida that would have elected Gore) and political horror (Willie Horton et al) - and now they're going to see it through with proj 2025.

I think this has been a longterm goal of the right for decades as they see no solution to being a minority except for minority rule.