{"id":491289,"date":"2022-01-30T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=199598"},"modified":"2022-01-30T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:03:37","slug":"fascisms-legal-phase-has-begun-threats-of-white-vigilante-violence-are-real-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/30\/fascisms-legal-phase-has-begun-threats-of-white-vigilante-violence-are-real-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascism\u2019s \u201cLegal Phase\u201d Has Begun. Threats Of White Vigilante Violence Are Real."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Republicans\u00a0blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act\u00a0on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.\u2019s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level\u00a0Legislative And Enforcement Landscape\u00a0that directly mirrors Jim Crow \u2014 or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, \u201cAmerica is now in fascism\u2019s legal phase.\u201d Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/fascisms-legal-phase-has-begun-threats-of-white-vigilante-violence-are-real\/\">Fascism\u2019s \u201cLegal Phase\u201d Has Begun. Threats Of White Vigilante Violence Are Real.<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/fascisms-legal-phase-has-begun-threats-of-white-vigilante-violence-are-real\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Republicans\u00a0blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act\u00a0on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.\u2019s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culminati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34808,5717,3672,2032],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491444,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491289\/revisions\/491444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}