• pingveno@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Philip Wallach of the American Enterprise Institute called the visioning effort an “authoritarian fantasy.”

    When the center-right is like “slow down, too far crazy right”, you know it’s bad.

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      1 year ago

      I think the center right is more like “Don’t say it out loud yet, we don’t have enough public support.”

      When it comes to Republicans, I don’t think there’s actually a divide between moderates and radicals. There are the people who want to impose a Handmaid’s Tale authoritarian theocracy right away. Then there are the people who also want a Handmaid’s Tale authoritarian theocracy but think they don’t have enough public support for revolution and want to gradually move America further to the right by taking over school boards and sabotaging liberal public institutions and so on. The destination is the same, only the strategy differs.