The GOP has been forcing its members to pass loyalty tests and to get on board with the demonization of its political rivals since evangelicals got into bed with politicians decades ago. Ask anyone in any small town who has battled their local school board over public education funding. Whether demonizing moms asking for a new school building or demonizing school superintendents advocating for higher wages for teachers, the GOP has been in moral decline for a very long time. A decade ago, symptoms of that decline were no-tax pledges to Grover Norquist and loyalty tests that date back to the earliest days of the “moral majority”. More recently, the symptoms are A-list candidates like Donald Trump and JD Vance, whose demonization of immigrants is on par with Hitler-era propaganda. Howe did we get here?
The moral majority didn’t have a common enemy, so they created one and tasked the GOP with attending to its every need. In the decade that followed 9/11, it was easy. But During the Obama era of diversity, equity and inclusion, the GOP really struggled to keep up with the daily feedings of fear and loathing. Then came Trump, who proved to be an effective fabricator capable not only of feeding the monster, but even fueling its growth. The GOP didn’t just accept Trump, they celebrated him and provided every resource necessary to curate the depravity that is now the GOP’s trademark.
The widespread embrace of hate, combined with 21st century technology, spawned a monster more sinister and insatiable than anything the moral majority could ever have imagined. The only ones capable of satiating this monster now are the billionaires at the very top of the food chain, and there’s only one government in the world that can stop them.
The billionaires backing JD Vance control information all over the world—how it is collected, how it is stored, and how it is shared. The only firewall currently protecting our rights to privacy exists because of government regulations that make it a crime for billionaire tech companies to exploit our vulnerabilities as average citizens. This is why billionaire tech execs want to fill every seat of the U.S. government with reprobate loyalists who will use every tool at their disposal to not only to dismantle our government, but to ensure our democracy has no chance of survival.
If the GOP wins in 2024, they will remove every guardrail that protects us, and they will do so at the behest of the billionaire tech execs who have bankrolled their campaigns.
Defeating the GOP in November is critical, but not because of Donald Trump. It will be the first of many battles to protect our democracy from billionaire tech execs who are competing for trillionaire status and will do whatever it takes to win.
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