who are the neo-nazis voting for?

Three years back, days ahead of the national elections in 2020, Ted Swartz reminded us of the company we keep.

The neo-nazis lost that election almost everywhere ... and many of the exceptions — in both 2020 and two years later in the midterms —were in places they apparently won because of gerrymandered voting districts that have since been, or are being, restructured under court order.

Which is to say that, had neo-nazi-adjacent Republican legislators not illegally and/or immorally suppressed the votes of folks they believed would vote for the other side ... which they seem to interpret — perhaps accurately — as votes against them ... the US House of Representatives would not be in the mess it's in, with a newly anointed Speaker who, this week, is prepared to hold our national security and our obligations to allies and to vulnerable and oppressed people in Ukraine, Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank hostage.

And the price Speaker Johnson and MAGA Republicans are demanding? They're demanding that Members of the House agree to go easy on wealthy tax cheats and free-riders by defunding the enforcement capacity of the Internal Revenue Service ... an enforcement capacity that recovers $12 for every one dollar spent on audits of the top 10 percent of earners. (https://cdn.policyimpacts.org/cms/Welfare_Audits_ad1284984d.pdf)

Not that it will be easy, but let’s finish the job. Let’s do the work necessary to elect Democrats to the US House and Senate until such time as Republicans return to — and hold each other accountable for — fidelity to the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the rule of law, and a good faith commitment to the ongoing formation of a more perfect union.