All Hail Ceasar!

The Goose Stepping Republicans.
 

The true colors of the party is starting to show and people are noticing.

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening

Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump

The Guardian

By Jason Wilson

October 1, 2023

In June, the rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end.

Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”.

In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.

But that is not all, the Republicans are backing Putin with the Republicans cutting funding to Ukraine.

In tying government shutdown to cutting aid for Ukraine, MAGA Republicans put America last
Extremists within the GOP have made defunding military aid to Ukraine a centerpiece of their refusal to pass appropriations bills, as the party of Reagan becomes the enabler of Putin.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
By Trudy Rubin
October 1, 2023

In their deadly determination to smash the U.S. government, the MAGA extremists in Congress took the wrecking ball to America’s national security last week.

Although the government shutdown sought by GOP radicals was averted at the very last minute, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bowed to the MAGA minority on Ukraine. At a critical moment for Kyiv’s counteroffensive, he eliminated Ukraine aid from a stopgap spending measure that will keep the government open until mid-November — when the whole GOP circus will restart.

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The Republican surrender to these radicals threatens to undermine what could yet become America’s greatest moral and strategic foreign policy success in decades. These blind isolationists have made defunding military aid to Ukraine into a crusade. Their false claims about the war boost Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hopes that he can still wrest victory from his failing invasion.

The party of Ronald Reagan has become the enabler of Putin.

The Guardian article goes to write,

For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic in conference rooms, podcasts and the house organs of the extreme right, especially those associated with the Claremont Institute thinktank.

Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy.

Remember this is the party that Trump said of the White-Nationalist Protesters: 'Some Very Fine People on Both Sides'! This is the partty where Governor DeSantis did not condemn the neo-Naizs that protested in front of Disney.

This is not your father’s Republican party.

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This is Banned Book Week.

The kids know. The children know that it is wrong to ban books.

Adults have a lot to say about book bans — but what about kids?
NPR Heard on All Things Considered
By Elizabeth Blair 2018 square
October 4, 2023

There's a lot of discussion and debate about the rise in efforts to remove certain books from school libraries and curriculums. It usually involves adults debating the issue — but it's kids who are affected.

So how do young readers feel about book bans? We asked some.

We spoke with Sawyer, 12, from Arlington, Va., Theo, 9, from St. Louis, Mo., Priya, 14, and Ellie, 14, both from Austin, Texas. To protect their privacy, we're only using their first names.

Here's what they said:

Sawyer: I don't like it. It just feels weird that you're gonna, like, cut it off from them. ... Why are you trying to hide information from your kids? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. ... If you take something away from a kid, it kind of makes them want it more.

Theo: It's pretty much taking away books from people — like even books that people actually might like. If you ban every book, then there's not really going to be any books left to read. So what's the point of it?

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Theo: I'd be pretty mad and a little upset [if a book was taken away], too. Yeah, I'd probably just buy a new one.

Children know more and are smarter than the Republicans think, the Republicans think that the children are dumb.

Priya: I go out of my way to read these banned books because I want to learn about how voices get silenced in our society ... and why.