Donald Trump over the past several weeks has completed the transformation of the Republican Party into a caricature of an extremist right-wing political cult. The GOP has become a fetid swamp of lies, racism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and character assassination. It is truly a fascist Party, wedded to the language and tactics of the European fascist parties of the 1920s-40s. Republicans under Trump are waging a war against America’s basic moral and democratic values, the Constitution, the rule of law, God’s Ten Commandments, Jesus’ Golden Rule, and common human decency. If any writer of fiction had depicted such a monstrosity as the real Republican Party in a draft novel, his publisher would have quickly deposited it in the nearest trash can, as so overwrought as to be comical.
No in-depth analysis is necessary to understand the brutal reality of the Republican Party. The headlines alone tell the story, and the text of the articles flesh it out admirably. Here are some prime examples: