Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Tucker: Best I Can Do For Ya Is Fascism" video.

@rtorres4132 The Republican party has been giving a home to extremists, since at least the 50s ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, southern racists, religious extremists, Reaganomics, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, science deniers, Trump cultists, Qanoners ... it has become a party of lunatics. And there's as much, if not more, corruption amongst Republican politicians than corporate Dems. They'll take in any psycho, or criminal, if it gives them a chance to win. It doesn't really matter what Democrats or progressives do.
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@whyamimrpink78 The US was founded by people who protested and even rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military. That's anti-authoritarian.Their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarian. Those two things aren't samesies, just because both sides caused damage and hurt people. There's no such thing as a left wing "fascist", and the right already went overt fascist, by trying to overthrow the democratic process. However flawed US democracy is, trying to outright end it is the last nail in the coffin Republicans need to hammer in, to embrace overt fascism. There's also not really such a thing as an extreme left in the US. Someone like Bernie wants to be more like Denmark. That's centrism, in the real world, outside the US bubble.
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@rtorres4132 I'm just saying I don't know if there's any way to avoid the right continuing to move to the extreme. They could have just as easily gone Bernie to avoid a Hillary or Biden. Instead they went Trump. Even if a president like Bill Clinton covers all the usual right wing bases ... turn deficit into surplus, pay down the debt, lower unemployment, increase police, lower crime, even "defend" straight marriage, etc. ... they just find new nuttier talking points, and elect an idiot like W, and his panel of neocon nuts. They've even been throwing their own under the bus, for not following the election insanity. Even FOX is now too tame for some of them. The Tea Party, before, did likewise. There's no other direction they seem willing to go.
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@rtorres4132 Yeah, but there wouldn't have been any possible way to rig things enough, if massive amounts of Republicans jumped the party ship and voted Bernie. They didn't want to take things that direction either, most of them making out like Bernie was an outright authoritarian communist. However corrupt corporate Dems are, there's still no indication that most Republicans want to go any other direction than the direction they're going.
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@rtorres4132 Like I said, there's no indication most right wingers want to go any other direction than that one. The percentage of the public that approved of him didn't change much, from beginning to end. More people voted in 2020, rather than shifted.
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