Mike Pence risked his life to oppose Trump’s January 6th coup attempt, so even though he is an Christian evangelical Dominionist, and I vehemently disagree with him on policy, I’m going to count him as pro-democracy. I also couldn’t easily find any clear point by point evidence that he’s a fascist, separate from Trump. Mostly stuff like this which calls him one, but never backs it up:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenation.com/article/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-january-6th/tnamp/
FWIW I’m not convinced by the article on Haley, having bad conservative policies != being an anti-democratic nut job who wants to rig elections and put all your opponents in jail. She’s super unlikely to win, though.
Because there’s a big difference between “has unsavory political stances” and “will actively and successfully optimize for turning the US into a fascist dictatorship”, such that “far right or fascist” is very misleading as a descriptor.
I’m confused why you don’t expect some other Republican candidate to do it. Have you not paid attention to Gov. DeSantis’s actions in Florida? https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/05/05/commentary-is-ron-desantis-fascist/
I’m not familiar with Nikki Haley, but this article seems to indicate she is at least far right: https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2023/02/nikki-haley-is-extremist-moderates-clothing-donald-trump
Mike Pence risked his life to oppose Trump’s January 6th coup attempt, so even though he is an Christian evangelical Dominionist, and I vehemently disagree with him on policy, I’m going to count him as pro-democracy. I also couldn’t easily find any clear point by point evidence that he’s a fascist, separate from Trump. Mostly stuff like this which calls him one, but never backs it up: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenation.com/article/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-january-6th/tnamp/
So out of the 4 people Politico considers contenders for the Republican nomination, 3 are far right or fascist, and the 1 who is partially pro-democracy is considered not likely to win, but might be able to influence who does. https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/republican-candidates-2024-gop-presidential-hopefuls-list/
FWIW I’m not convinced by the article on Haley, having bad conservative policies != being an anti-democratic nut job who wants to rig elections and put all your opponents in jail. She’s super unlikely to win, though.
Because there’s a big difference between “has unsavory political stances” and “will actively and successfully optimize for turning the US into a fascist dictatorship”, such that “far right or fascist” is very misleading as a descriptor.
There are reasons why Trump couldn’t do a successful coup even if he wanted to. He didn’t have the loyalty.
It seems that Trump’s strategy to get more loyalty for the next time was to use claims that the election was stolen as a loyalty test.
The other candidates are just going to hire the traditional Republican establishment in a similar way that Trump did in his first term.