The fascists really are coming, in the U.S.

If the Democrats do not use their narrow existing majorities in Congress to resurrect some version of the Voting Rights Act, then the new electoral machinery being installed by the Republican Party will guarantee that it wins the presidential elections of 2024.

Republican officials who refuse to say that Donald Trump, pictured, won the 2020 election are being removed by their own party. In a bid to frighten independent officials into quitting their jobs and creating openings for yet more Republican appointees, Republican-run state legislatures are imposing heavy fines (up to $25,000) on election officials who make even minor technical mistakes, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 23, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Godwin’s Law, coined in 1990, says that as a discussion on the internet grows longer, the likelihood of somebody being compared to Hitler or the Nazis rises inexorably toward 100 per cent. But once in a very long while the comparison is correct.

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