Troy Nehls, from Texas, calls Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’ and says he will nominate him to replace Kevin McCarthy

Troy Nehls, from Texas, calls Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’ and says he will nominate him to replace Kevin McCarthy

A Texas Republican said he would nominate Donald Trump to be the next speaker of the US House of Representatives, after the party completed the unprecedented removal of one of its own, Kevin McCarthy.

Troy Nehls said: “This week, when the US House of Representatives reconvenes, my first order of business will be to nominate Donald J Trump for speaker of the US House of Representatives.

“President Trump, the greatest president of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America first and will make the House great again.”

The speaker does not have to be a member of Congress, though no speaker has ever assumed the role without holding a seat.

  • spiderkle@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 year ago

    Let's say these old farts manage to somehow fuck things up even harder for the rest of us, what's their "optimal-outcome-scenario" played out to it's full conclusion? Are we talking "Handmaid's Tale" or "1984"?

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      101·
      1 year ago

      Dictatorship run by MAGA Republicans. First by Trump, until he "graciously decides to give up the office." (Read: drops dead on the throne.)

      No education is allowed unless the MAGAs approve of it. In addition, science is distrusted. Companies flee the country as all scientific progress not only grinds to a halt, but reverses.

      Kids are essentially taught "white Christian men are better than anyone else." Using coded language at first until they get bolder. Slavery? That was just A job opportunity program for Black people.

      Anyone who isn't deemed MAGA enough doesn't get to vote until they go to a re-education camp. There you'll learn that been LGBTQ is a mental illness, believing in any religion other than Christianity sends you to hell, and a woman that gets raped must have been dressed wrong.

      Opposing parties would be allowed to exist at much reduced levels. They wouldn't have any political power, but would be handy scapegoats. Any opposition leader who gained too much of a following would get arrested on some obviously made up charge.

      In short, it would be a Christian Theocracy mixed with Russian Authoritarianism.

      • spiderkle@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Very well put. The terrifying thing is, that all of those steps are already being put into effect.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      There is no fascist utopia. It's not a promise for a better world, but one of constant struggle.

      From Orwell's 1940 review of Mein Kampf: https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/

      Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder . . . Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain . . . Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.