In the 2024 American election, Republicans spent nearly $215 million dollars on ads fear mongering about the presence of trans people in society. It was their wedge issue of choice, along with manufacturing a panic around immigrants (Trump: “they’re eating the dogs… they’re eating the cats… they are eating the pets of [Springfield, Ohio].”)
Republicans won.
In Trump’s first two weeks, the White House pardoned the Trump-backed attackers of the capitol in a violent failed coup, abolished the Department of Education, imposed sanctions on the staff of the International Criminal Court, pushed to annex Canada and Greenland, among a flurry of other authoritarian moves. In the midst of it all were six executive orders to purge trans people from American society.
With the party having eliminated dissenting members, including through death threats, Republicans in the legislative and judicial branches made Trump a sovereign; no longer a check and balance, they are reduced to conduits for his whims.
Trump, the serial rapist and convicted felon supported by “pro-family” and “tough on crime” Republicans, finally became a strongman like those he has openly coveted: Hitler, Kim Jong-Un, and Putin.
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