Dear John,

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Texas’ draconian abortion law that bans abortions after six weeks and empowers private citizens to go after abortion providers.

I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party stood for limited government — when Ronald Reagan thundered, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

That’s not to say this ideology was beneficial to the country — far from it. But it was coherent, and they were committed to it.

Today’s Republican Party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, stands for government intrusion everywhere.

Outlawing abortions. Banning mask mandates. Dictating what educators can teach in schools. Stopping people from voting. Forcing transgender students to play sports and use bathrooms according to their assigned gender at birth.

This is not limited government, folks. This is social control.

Republicans are misusing government to advance a narrow and restrictive set of values — intruding on the most intimate acts, and banning what’s necessary for people to exercise their most basic freedoms.

This is not mere hypocrisy. The Republican Party now poses a clear and present threat even to the values it once espoused.

Thanks for watching,

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action

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