Bigots and Billionaires

The idea that anyone should stop talking about Trump and his incipient fascist regime because a 20-year-old Republican with a gun in an open-carry state took a shot at him is just... ridiculous.

Tom Tomorrow is having none of it:

We have to keep talking about Project 2025, as Cory Doctorow did recently. Many subject-matter experts are focusing on particular parts of the plan, which is necessary. Doctorow was one of the people who looked at the crux of it:

The American right has, since the founding of the Republic, been bent on creating a system of hereditary aristocrats, who govern without "interference" from democratic institutions.

He goes on to point out the weakness in the Right:

But for all that the right has bombed so many of the roads to a prosperous, humane future, it's a huge mistake to think of the right as a stable, unified force, marching to victory after inevitable victory.

The American right is a brittle coalition led by a handful of plutocrats who have convinced a large number of turkeys to vote for Christmas.

The right wing coalition needs to pander to forced-birth extremists, racist extremist, Christian Dominionist extremists (of several types), frothing anti-Communist cranks, vicious homophobes and transphobes, etc, etc.

Pandering to all these groups isn't easy: for one thing, they often want opposite things...

Another person I read used the phrase "bigots and billionaires," and I think that's wording we should adopt to describe the Right to point out who they really are, and make the choice clear to anyone considering voting for Trump and other Republicans.

Do you want to work with the bigots and billionaires? Be part of the party of bigots and billionaires?