Maybe I Should Just Always Post Heather Cox Richardson Every Friday

NOTICE IN HER DISCUSSION of the white supremacist fantasies of our Temu Goebbels, * Stevie Miller of the German anti-democratic theorist  Carl Schmidt and Miller's pushing Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act so as to keep Democrats from voting.    It kind of gets back to the post about Raoul Berger's  absurd notion that the real danger of bringing the US from "Weimar to Hitler" being the 14th Amendment-equality rulings of the Warren Court when it's actually those who favor inequality and THEIR PERVERSION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT who are bringing us there.  The ones Berger wanted to empower through his "originalist" reading of the 14th Amendment, the one the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts are using to revive Jim Crow.  No discussion of anything to do with American history, politics or law makes the slightest bit of sense UNLESS YOU ADMIT THAT WHITE SUPREMACY IS AND HAS BEEN SINCE BEFORE OUR FOUNDING OUR INDIGENOUS AND DANGEROUSLY EMPOWERED FORM OF FASCISM.  And I really do mean actual, held in place through violence, terror, corruption and intimidation as well as ubiquitous throughout the popular literature, theater, media and culture.   Its only rival for production of control through that is male-supremacy which is another form of fascism but which is ubiquitous in world cultures.  

I generally find historians to be somewhat better at predicting that kind of thing to lawyers.   Maybe that has something to do with history as an academic discipline having some relation to actual fact which you don't get with legal lore as it's practiced in law schools. 

Anyway, she's a lot more worth listening to than what I'm still working on at this point.   I should know better than to start a series before the killing frost hits here.   

* I don't say that to make light of Miller and his criminal influence over Trump,  he clearly is running Trump's vestigial brain these days BECAUSE HE APPEALS TO TRUMP'S VICIOUS RACISM.   Racism is the glue that holds the Republican Party together,  up to and including the pathology of someone like Clarence Thomas who clearly hates Black People as much as any white supremacist.   It is our fascist party in ways that the Democratic Party never was before Goldwater and Nixon took up William Rusher and William F. Buckley's concept of the Southern Strategy of combining Southern white supremacy with regional resentment and using the media to spread that in ways that had somewhat subsided during and for a few decades after the 1930s.   Hollywood was, as it always has been, more than ready to play its role in that as, in fact, other venues of the mass media.   I think Miller is more likely to have imbibed his white supremacy, apparently foreign to his family, from popular media, not the wack-job Catho-fascist Carl Schmidt directly.