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>They wanted fewer immigrants and mass deportations. They wanted the unilateral authority to decide who was sufficiently American. They wanted a Christian state, abortion outlawed, birth control restricted, IVF criminalized, and public education systematically dismantled to fund private religious academies. They wanted to abolish federal agencies on a whim, replace career civil servants with ideologically vetted stooges, and reorganize the American family under a mandatory medieval hierarchy where men lead, women obey, and the state polices the nursery.
>Above all, they wanted a Republican Party that would stop apologizing for any of it.
>They were bitter about demographic shifts, paranoid about Muslims, intoxicated by nationalism, and absurdly obsessed with public health conspiracy theories. They claimed to loathe big government, yet they drooled at the prospect of using federal power to censor libraries, inspect fertility clinics, and enforce theological obedience. They wanted absolute liberty for their weapons and businesses, and total subjection for everyone else’s private life. It was a vision that was simultaneously sinister, recklessly destructive, and profoundly, irredeemably stupid. And they had the staggering audacity to call it a movement into the future.
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Substack writers are undefeated in the fight against brevity.
>They wanted fewer immigrants and mass deportations. They wanted the unilateral authority to decide who was sufficiently American. They wanted a Christian state, abortion outlawed, birth control restricted, IVF criminalized, and public education systematically dismantled to fund private religious academies. They wanted to abolish federal agencies on a whim, replace career civil servants with ideologically vetted stooges, and reorganize the American family under a mandatory medieval hierarchy where men lead, women obey, and the state polices the nursery.
>Above all, they wanted a Republican Party that would stop apologizing for any of it.
>They were bitter about demographic shifts, paranoid about Muslims, intoxicated by nationalism, and absurdly obsessed with public health conspiracy theories. They claimed to loathe big government, yet they drooled at the prospect of using federal power to censor libraries, inspect fertility clinics, and enforce theological obedience. They wanted absolute liberty for their weapons and businesses, and total subjection for everyone else’s private life. It was a vision that was simultaneously sinister, recklessly destructive, and profoundly, irredeemably stupid. And they had the staggering audacity to call it a movement into the future.