awaywithyou
5mo ago
I have a lot of (new, not classical) liberal friends and tend to trawl liberal and progressive-adjacent spaces on the internet. I’ve seen and heard an uptick in references to electing Trump leading to “white Christian fascism” or a “Christian fascist dictatorship”. It is those exact phrases.
I’ve tried to google the phrases and where this line of thought originated but the internet is awash in fascism-related commentary on Trump in general, none of it which specifically utilizes the exact phrase “white Christian fascism” or “Christian fascist dictatorship”. Would any of you have an idea of where this began?
In case you just hand wave to general news coverage, I should note that I do not read or watch mainstream news. I work in a policy-related position and tend to read (almost never watch) primarily trade-related publications with WSJ, FT, The Motte, and StupidPol forming the bulk of my general news sources.
awaywithyou
1yr ago
They’re everywhere now!
It was an exciting and terrifying day when the announcement was made that, in the next year, they would be opening one less than twenty minutes away.
I remember when their initial expansion in BR was a big deal. They took over the building of a Fast Track my dad would often take me to. Now it’ll be dangerously within easy reach at an age when I should probably stop eating it.
awaywithyou
1yr ago
I read your description and think of a city from where I grew up before I realize it could literally be any mid-sized water-adjacent city.
And, yes, I agree with your assessment of what has happened to that half-mile-away street.
The entire state’s elections wouldn’t vanish overnight because the non-severability provision would also apply to the part of the comprehensive election reform law that repealed the prior election law.
The statement that courts ignore severability is also absolutely wild, considering severability questions have been a major part of many Supreme Court cases (which is relevant, considering your example related to Congress). I’m not going to go trawling for more, but off the top of my head, this was the case for the NFIB case upholding Obamacare and the Reno case that effectively created the modern Internet by invalidating almost all of the Communications Decency Act.
I’d also agree with @anti_dan that it is reprehensible behavior even if it were true, so it shouldn’t matter if it is truly some norm amongst judges, as you claim.
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