In 1987, President Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall." Today's Republicans and "conservatives" would have told them to keep the wall up, build it higher — and we will help you do it. In the Age of Trump, the Republican Party has fully jettisoned the Cold War-era rule that "politics stops at the water's edge."
Here in the United States, the Republican Party is trying to end multiracial pluralistic democracy. Today's Republican Party no longer believes in American Exceptionalism. As part of their revolutionary campaign to end multiracial democracy, they are looking to autocracies and neofascist regimes abroad in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Vladimir Putin's Russia for inspiration and guidance on how to transform American society in their twisted vision. In one of the most striking and worrying examples, Gov. Ron DeSantis is in the process of using Florida as a laboratory for neofascism which will be a model for Republicans and their forces around the country.
