From Charles Pierce's weekly newsletter: What the hell are we doing?

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2. Republicans want a police state where they decide who has rights and who doesn't.

In Texas, Paxton has demanded the medical records from out-of-state clinics that may have treated Texas transgender kids so he can prosecute the parents for child abuse and endangerment. Texas also tried to pass laws making it illegal for a pregnant person to travel on roads leading to another state to have an abortion. Some Republican states have accessed women’s medical records to determine whether they’ve had an abortion out of state.

They also oppose any protest that does not agree with their propaganda and want to use the military to quash it, which is likely to lead to deaths for protesters. They have no tolerance for anyone who disagrees with them and think that violence is the answer to controlling all the people they don’t like.