The Republican Party’s anti-democracy cancer is spreading globally

The New York Times writes:

President Jair Bolsonaro elevated his vote-fraud claims from a matter of domestic politics to foreign policy, heightening international fears that he would dispute the coming election.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil called dozens of foreign diplomats to the presidential palace on Monday to tell them that he believed the country’s voting systems could be rigged, a potential preview of his strategy for an election that is 75 days away and that polls forecast he will lose in a landslide.

While Mr. Bolsonaro’s presentation was not new — he has repeated those claims for years — his audience was. He had invited officials from most of the embassies in Brazil’s capital, Brasília, elevating his claims from a matter of domestic politics to foreign policy.

Note that the fascist Republican Party’s democracy killing cancer seems to be of a single kind. Unlike over 100 different human cancers, the GOP’s cancer and close variants all have common pathologies. Prominent pathologies of radical right democracy killing cancer include:

• Attacks on, and subversion of, elections based on fabricated claims of voter and/or vote fraud
• Relentless demagoguery, including outrageous lies and slanders about political opposition 
• Tolerance of corruption
• Contempt and disregard for inconvenient facts, truths and sound reasoning
• Open attacks on the LGBQT community, immigrants, civil liberties and/or democracy, with praise for authoritarian leadership accompanying attacks on democracy 
• Alignment of politicians with wealthy and power elites in business and sometimes religion too

At least the Christian fundamentalists can claim authority from God to destroy democracy and impose his righteous tyranny. What’s the authority the laissez-faire capitalists reply on? Originalism, strict constructionism, deceit, division and opacity are the kinds of things they use to do their dirty work.