Quick update on American fascism and abortion

My post yesterday referred to Don T**** Jr and T****’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows as neo-fascist traitors because they plotted a coup. Today, it appears that some other people are starting to see the same thing. Newsweek writes:

Trump Jr. Accused of ‘Treason’ After Pre-Jan. 6 Texts to Meadows Revealed

Legal experts are calling for Donald Trump Jr. to face criminal proceedings after newly revealed text messages obtained by the January 6 House committee show he sought to prevent certification of the 2020 election and install his father to a second term.

While votes for the 2020 election were being counted, Trump Jr. texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows laying out a strategy to keep President Donald Trump in power by throwing out election results of key swing states, CNN reported Friday. The disclosed texts shed further light on recent revelations of Trump and his inner circle's efforts to block the certification of the 2020 election.

“It's very simple,” Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, according to CNN. “We have multiple paths We control them all.”

Fortunately for the morally rotted traitor DTJ, his treasonous father and the traitorous Republican Party thugs in congress, the administration and elsewhere who supported the coup attempt, Democratic Attorney General Merrick Garland is on duty. He’s doing his best to defend rich and powerful criminals and traitors from prosecution. It’s that good old plausible deniability thing. Plausible deniability is the white collar criminal’s tippy-top best friend.

Meanwhile, Dissident Politics has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in Peace. The nomination is prompted by yesterday’s brilliant post, A quick reminder: Neo-fascism is alive and aggressive in the US.

And, don’t forget. Our Christian nationalist Supreme Court will be handing down its anti-abortion decision in coming weeks. The decision will probably mostly or completely wipe out Roe v. Wade and most abortion rights. It will probably drop into the punch bowl in mid- to late-June. 

Some parting thoughts on what is happening and will happen once the Amwerican fascists rise to the full power they lust for. 

Thought 1: This has almost nothing to do with inconvenient facts or inconvenient logic. It has almost everything to do with tribe and cult loyalty. 

Thought 2: Texas Public Radio reports in a piece, Texas woman charged with murder for ‘self-induced abortion’:

Police in Starr County on the Texas-Mexico border arrested and charged a woman last week with murder for allegedly performing what they called a “self-induced abortion.”

The Starr County Sheriff's Office arrested 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera on Thursday. TPR confirmed Friday night that Herrera was in the custody of the Starr County Sheriff’s Office with bond set at $500,000. By Saturday night, Herrera was released from custody. Her arraignment was scheduled for next week.

The Starr County grand jury's indictment, dated March 30, stated that Herrera "did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual J.A.H. by a self-induced abortion."

Thought 3: The most likely outcome, the court mostly or completely obliterates Roe and leaves abortion law to the states. The less likely, but most Christian nationalist outcome, the court makes all abortions in all states murder and makes anyone helping in any abortion an accomplice to murder and just as criminally liable.

Thought 4: American fascists are mostly Republicans and most of them are radical Christian nationalists. They oppose civil liberties that God says are bad. That includes (i) abortions, (ii) voting rights, (iii) free and fair elections, and (iv) protections for non-heterosexual people and non-White people. 

There is an American fascist apocalypse underway right now. It's comes in the form of Republican Party politics. Abe Lincoln warned us what was coming. He was right.