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Opinion | The Limit Does Not Exist for Republicans

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Yep — it’s Christian fascism. They want to use the power of the state to control people and hurt who they don’t like.
- That definitely true for a significant percentage of republicans (especially their politicians and media personalities) but like any large group, republicans are internally diverse, and it's unhelpful, and potentially dangerous, to think of them as a cultural monolith with identical values.
  
  Republicans aren't internally diverse. Reagan and his evangelical allies chased all the non-christofascists out of the party decades ago.
  
  I dunno, they seem to be totally okay with this since they keep voting for it. In what sense is "not all Republicans" a reasonable response when, again, they vote for this and continue voting for it?
  
  Is there a large group of republicans opposing the current fascist explosion in their party?
The attack on bodily autonomy is not general. It is aimed at women. It subjects their bodies to state control and in the process degrades their citizenship. “Without the ability to decide whether and when to have children, women could not — in the way men took for granted — determine how they would live their lives, and how they would contribute to the society around them,” the dissenters in Dobbs wrote. For women to take their place as “full and equal citizens,” they “must have control over their reproductive decisions.”

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