By MIKE MAGEE
As a way to save the Republican occasion, all of us have to vote Democratic this yr.
With out hyperbole, Project 2025 feels much like Germany within the early 1930’s. Their web site introduction reads:
“It isn’t sufficient for conservatives to win elections. If we’re going to rescue the nation from the grip of the novel Left, we’d like each a governing agenda and the proper individuals in place, prepared to hold this agenda out on Day One of many subsequent conservative Administration.”
Alabama’s 73-year outdated Justice Tom Parker is clearly a type of “proper individuals.” He didn’t flinch in his February 16, 2024 determination in “LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine.” Citing an 1872 Alabama state regulation that enables for people to sue over the “wrongful death of a minor,” he confidently declared that 8-cell embryos cryopreserved in fertility clinics had been individuals. He then added insult to damage. He tied the choice to declaring that people accountable for the mistaken lack of the cells chargeable for damages to the state’s (Dobbs determination enabled) 2019 law banning abortion. A messy backlash in opposition to and for IVF quickly adopted.
Not content material to be each lawyer and physician, Parker added theologian to his credentials stating in his determination: “In abstract, the theologically based mostly view of the sanctity of life adopted by the Folks of Alabama encompasses the next: (1) God made each particular person in His picture; (2) every particular person due to this fact has a price that far exceeds the power of human beings to calculate; and (3) human life can’t be wrongfully destroyed with out incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His picture as an affront to Himself.”
Decided radicalized leaders, fueled with a non secular fervor, way back rejected the Founding Fathers dedication to separation of Church and State.
Take into account the phrases of James Madison, in a speech to the Home of Representatives in 1789: “The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of non secular perception or worship, nor shall any nationwide faith be established, nor shall the complete and equal rights of conscience be in any method, or on any pretext infringed.”
As we now flip the nook on our strategy to a November election, you will need to acknowledge that the menace we face is bigger than Trump alone. To not acknowledge the leaders of Mission 2025 and past at this second in our historical past can be equal to believing that WWII was solely about Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito, when the truth is the problem was far higher than that.
Acknowledged merely, the human species within the Axis societies had gone off the rails and channeled themselves right into a demise spiral. “Breaking the spell” required unprecedented pressure and finally the usage of atomic bombs, adopted by multi-decade investments by the Marshall Plan to reestablish civilized human societies.
It is because of this that “limping to the end line” is not an choice for our nation. Mission 2025, the Supreme Courtroom’s current Chevron determination, and the multi-pronged assault on girls’s reproductive freedom all counsel that an awesome defeat of Republicans down poll can be required to put the bottom for restoration of a wholesome two-party Democracy.
Something much less will embolden an already captive Supreme Courtroom and MAGA insurrectionists. A two-party system of Democracy has delivered dependable and peaceable transition of energy for over two centuries till 2020. A type of events has been usurped, inserting our treasured Democracy in danger. The quickest strategy to reset a viable two-party system is to decisively defeat Trump and all MAGA down-ballot allies throughout the US in November.
Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and common contributor to THCB. He’s the writer of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex (Grove/2020).
