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Kathryn Joyce: The Ideology Behind a “Benevolent” US Theocracy
Episode 95 of Refuse Fascism podcast, uploaded January 23:
Sam Goldman talks to author and investigative reporter
Kathryn Joyce on the power of ideology in the fascist movement; especially how and why Hungary is a model for the GOP.
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Kathryn Joyce: "They’re looking to the ways that Viktor Orban talks up Christianity even as Hungary is actually a very secular country, but Viktor Orban keeps making all of these pronouncements that he is doing things in defense of Hungary’s historic Christian nature. They’re looking at that as: Okay, maybe we’re not going to have the empire of Guadalupe established here, but maybe we can get something closer to Viktor Orban’s Hungary. So in that way, it’s emerging as the somewhat more realistic model for them, which is terrifying for anybody who would not fit well under Viktor Orban’s autocratic, deeply anti-LGBTQ, anti-freedom of the press, anti-academic freedom, anti- so many things extremely xenophobic, quite racist. But this is what they are moving towards as their model at least. So that is why Tucker Carlson is going back there."
Sam Goldman: "Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of Roe, and on Friday tens of thousands of anti abortion fanatics, feeling triumphalist, expecting this will be the last year of Roe — the last year of abortion rights nationally — flooded the streets. Their hatred for abortion rights has always been driven by their desire to control women and refasten the chains of their oppression.
Yet, precisely at this most dangerous hour, there’s widespread capitulation by the Democrats and all too many pro choice leaders. But the enslavement of women, a` Christian fascist nightmare for all of society is nothing to capitulate, to compromise with, to downplay or prepare for. This must be fought."
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