.espiers: This Young Republicans club's latest endorsement is a dangerous joke with real consequences
Republicans would love to be as successful as Orbán is at implementing these ideas here. The Republican Party is increasingly embracing an anti-majoritarian, anti-democratic orientation, the end result of which is inevitably authoritarianism. In a country that is increasingly diverse and where women and minorities are achieving more equity, there is no other way for them to win elections and maintain power.
The Republicans who venerate would-be dictators like Trump and Orbán assume that the strongman will always be in their corner. I tweeted about the Orbán endorsement when it happened, and shortly after, the vice president of the New York Young Republican Club, Vish Burra , quote-tweeted me with “cry more lib.” Republicans like to whine about civility and bipartisanship when it looks like they’re about to be outvoted, but in practice, as a matter of pure policy, this is a nutshell encapsulation of what they want to achieve.
There are no rational small-government, open free-market objectives if they conflict with “cry more lib.” It’s also indicative of how little the Republican Party values empathy and compassion and how its knee-jerk antagonism of liberals has become its stand-alone raison d’etre. It has more disdain for liberal Americans who would enforce the rights of its members — to vote, to criticize the government, to practice their religion freely — than it does for a dictator who would eliminate the party entirely or blithely put its members’ lives in danger if they happen to be nonwhite immigrants.
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