Legal Fascism

With each passing day, the fascists exert more control

As we head into a new year with what will, if we are lucky, be a continuation of a series of elections that will run throughout this decade that will probably decide the future and continued existence of our flawed constitutional and democratic system, the signs of an ever more quickening collapse of our democratic and constitutional order are growing. We are entering what Jason Stanley describes as American fascism’s legal phase at the same time the existing structures of civilian rule are being torn apart.

Peter Navarro, alias Ron Vara, is just another conservative hack economist who only got his job in the Trump administration because Jared Kushner was “doing his own research” on China by browsing Amazon and liked the title of Navarro’s book. These days, Navarro is making the media rounds promoting his new book where he openly describes the plans he and Steve Bannon had concocted for the failed 1/6 coup. The so-called “Green Bay sweep” had enlisted approximately 150 Republicans who were willing to challenge the certification of the 2020 election in six states and “remand those votes back to the six battleground states…we believed that if the votes were sent back to those battleground states and looked at again that there would be enough concern amongst the legislatures that most or all of those states…