“We will not stop calling out and fighting back against extremist, so-called leaders who try to prevent our children from learning our true and full history,” the vice president said in Florida.

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    And laws contradictory to what science finds are beneficial to the mental health of those with gender dysphoria. Or to be more specific, laws that harm trans people.

    And laws to censor discourse about members of society based on sexual preference, thereby attempting to invalidate their existence.

    These are mile markers on the path of genocide.

    Features of fascism include nationalism, right wing ideology, defining an in group and out group and persecuting the latter, among other things. The actions of the GOP and DeSantis specifically are fascist.

    Right wing apologists of course try to dilute the word by making bad faith claims. (See: Alt-Right Playbook video series). Those people like what DeSantis is doing and don’t see the targets as equally human, if they see them as human at all.

    That goes far, far beyond disagreement into the realm of “fuck then and everything they stand for and I will do whatever needs doing to fight it.”