
Yes, fascism.
Via Newsbusters:
In a Sunday post, Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman charged that a combination of unyielding ideological extremism and efforts to prevent many who might oppose said extremism from voting mean that the Republican party’s creed has “really beg[un] to resemble fascism.”
Longman noted that the DNC recently announced a campaign designed to find and register likely Democratic voters and remarked that while that project is “certainly in [Democrats’] self-interest…it’s also wholly consistent with traditional American values about…the right of everyone to vote…There is no corresponding effort to prevent likely Republican voters from registering to vote or to kick registered Republicans off the voter rolls.”
Meanwhile, Longman alleged, Republicans’ attempts to shrink the electorate via so-called voter-suppression laws “put…their entire political party at odds with the cherished ideals of representative government” and “also ha[ve] an inevitable racial component, since the best visual predictor of how someone will vote is the color of their skin.”
