At the Guardian, Jason Wilson has a grim warning for Americans, if not the entire world about what the nefarious Right Wing in U.S. politics is plotting these days. We’ve grown used to those on the left talking about how the Far Right (or the “antidemocratic right” as Wilson also identifies us) are plotting to cheat in elections, suppress voters, hand out handguns to toddlers, or just undermine democracy in general. But Wilson summons up a new bogeyman, quoting the work of Kevin Slack, who in June warned of an American system that is in severe decline, if not already in the midst of collapse. (Hard to argue with that some days.) But rather than winning elections and changing the system, we are warned of right-wingers who want to overthrow it entirely. They are waiting for a “Red Caesar” who will rise to power, break the chains of his followers, and “restore the strength of his people” in his “post-Constitutional rule.” So let’s see a show of hands. How many of you who are sick of the current flavor of tyranny in Washington would like to replace it with an entirely different brand of tyranny?Read More
The fallacy of the “Red Caesar”
