Howard Dean: The Republicans Are Now a Neo-Fascist Party – The Daily Beast

The Republican Party has suffered a total moral collapse and is now held together by a bunch of nutcases happy to endorse autocracy and neo-fascism, according to Howard Dean, the former presidential candidate and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The Democratic Party grandee tells Molly Jong-Fast he wont run for office again, so he is no longer treading on eggshells, in a fiery edition of The New Abnormal.

Dean said there are still one or two decent Republicans in Washington, D.C. but they lack the backbone to stand up to the people who have taken over the party.

I hate to call Republicans right-wing fascists because often they supported me, but this is unrecognizable, he said. They believe in autocracy not democracy, they are racist. Its just shocking. Whats happened to the Republican Party.

He has said Republican members of the House of Representatives were particularly inept. There are some House Republicans who are basically a sentient YouTube comment section, Dean said. They have nothing to contribute, frankly, to American politics, except for incendiary and sometimes delusional public statements.

After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Dean said the need to keep these people from power has become all-encompassing, and he called on members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to follow the lead of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in moderating their language while continuing to push their agenda within the Democratic framework because the alternativea Republican administration containing the likes of Sen. Josh Hawley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeois too alarming.

These people are crazy. Theyre conspiracy theorists, theyre whack jobs. Theyre embedding their own reality. I mean, if they ever really run the country, its going to be a disaster for us. Cause you... this is why autocrats dont run good economies because they start believing in their own BS, he said.

You have a Republican Party, which emotionally, essentially are neo-fascist. They fundamentally do not believe that another legitimate point of view exists other than theirs.

The former governor of Vermont said he had never been a Biden supporter but hes been stunned by the presidents performance so far and is pleased he wasnt making the same mistake as President Obama, who spent too much time waiting around for bipartisan support.

Bernie Sanders said that [Bidens] Rebuilding America bill was the most progressive piece of legislation hed seen since Johnson and the war on poverty. And, I mean, it is, Dean said. I think hes probably off to the best start of any president Ive seen in my lifetime.

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