The Long Coup: January 6th to Today

It was no surprise the Republicans made a coordinated and serious attempt to overthrow the 2020 Elections, destroy the United States Government, and install a Trump Junta via cowardly legerdemain and a buffoonish direct violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Conservatives long ago jettisoned their belief in Representative Government and have been yearning for a Casus Belli to justify an actual shooting war to sate their bloodlust to round-up and murder millions of Non-MAGA.  On the other hand, perfidious Republicans have long enjoyed using the byzantine bureaucratic levers at their disposal to undermine voting and democracy and the United States.  Smartly and rather frighteningly Republicans have adopted a multi-pronged attack on Democracy.

The Republican Long Coup started well before January 6th.  Perhaps 50 years ago with the Lewis Powell Memo. Or Ronnie Raygun's 1980 Presidential Campaign at Racist Rallying Cry at the Neshoba Fair in Philadelphia, Mississippi.  The Newt Gingrich 1994 Contract on America.  The latest iteration of the Republican Long Coup is The Big Lie and Forensic Audits of Election results for the 2020 Biden Victory.  Whatever the maneuver and regardless of the start date, decades ago Republicans decided their election chances require less voters and more convoluted election/voting barriers and they've spent their time working towards both goals.  And it continues today in every state government Republicans control outright or have over-representation.  Of course, when called out for their voter repression conservatives mobilize to get their pliant media to bothsides and provide overly credulous defense of Republican malfeasance. 

Now the Republicans best weapon in their drive to destroy the United States is time.  The current Republicans in the US Congress have specifically been trying to runout the clock to 2022 in the hopes they take back House and then kill any investigation into their participation and coordination on the violent riot and attempt to subvert American Democracy.  But, overall Republicans have always known time aids them because Americans have no memory and the media willingly and actively moves on to advance the narrative of the next fake rightwing outrage.

But, with all these long-running machinations; What do Republicans want?

The short answer is fascism.  Republicans are setting the Nation up for a long-term minority rule by White Evangelicals, paramilitary terrorists, and plutocrats.  A 21st Century Rhodesia.  An American Estado Novo.  The New Confederacy.  The AmeriKKKan Reich.