Authoritarianism Surges in U.S. as Texas Attacks LGBTQ Families and Republicans Praise Putin
Do you see how authoritarian the U.S. is becoming?
When the New York Times notification flashed on my screen yesterday, I gasped in shock
Grim news about the rise of authoritarianism had broken, much faster and much worse than people expected — in the U.S., not eastern Europe. As the world holds its breath and hangs on to hope that Ukraine will resist a naked war of aggression waged by the authoritarian Vladimir Putin, the U.S. sinks deeper into an anti-democratic quagmire, with Republican leaders all over the nation flexing political muscles to persecute LGBTQ people for political points as they praise totalitarian rule.
What’s happening in Texas right now is straight out of dystopian fiction.
Does the this sound like the U.S. or Russia?
A woman in Texas was just suspended from her state job because she has a teenage transgender daughter suspected of receiving gender-affirming treatment from a qualified doctor. Shortly after the employee cleared out her desk, state investigators knocked on the door of her home seeking her daughter’s medical records. She refused to…
