Restricting and Enforcing Interstate Travel

These two developments may seem to have little to do with each other, but taken together they present a very bleak picture of where the Republican Party, and the MAGA cult from which it is largely indistinguishable, are taking the US. If the Republicans continue to get their way, this will be a country where migrants are wantonly sent from state to state so ambitious politicians can boost their poll numbers and fundraising, but women who cross state lines will become targets of suspicion. That is a right-wing dystopic vision that would impress even the most cynical reader of Orwell or Atwood.

The Republican Covid Fetish

In recent weeks, the Republican Party has taken an even stranger, darker and more murderous approach to Covid. While their previous policies led directly to the deaths of Americans because they simply ignored the danger of Covid and resisted medical interventions from masks to social distancing to vaccines, current GOP policy essentially mandates that people directly or indirectly expose themselves to the virus and seeks to punish those who would like to prevent that.