Within the information immediately: The undoing of a century of science and social progress by the hands of a “conservative” fascist motion seeking to deliver again horrors starting from McCarthyism to polio. And that is not hyperbole.
Freshly put in in Virginia, the brand new Republican governor is asking mother and father to report schoolteachers who contact on “divisive” ideas; this follows nationwide pushes to strip faculty libraries of lots of of “divisive” books with lists that focus conspicuously on the works of Black American authors. In Georgia, Republican anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science legislators are increasing their pandemic tradition conflict to incorporate all vaccines with a proposal that may bar all vaccine necessities within the state—together with vaccines in opposition to the lethal childhood illnesses that the nation has all however eradicated. In Florida, a Republican governor vows he’ll sue the FDA moderately than acknowledge that his personal much-touted pandemic miracle remedy has been examined and decided to be ineffective.
The nation’s longstanding anti-vaccine fringe has now merged with on-line conspiracy theorists and the white nationalist far proper, all whereas Europe faces a brand new Russian menace that may probably not exist had a small set of Republican “strategists” partnered with Russian oligarchs to undermine the Ukrainian authorities (and goal American troopers) for revenue. America’s fascist motion is bringing all of it again, from polio to Russian ambitions for new soviet union, and all of it has Fox Information hosts and Republican elected officers keen to stump for it.
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