The party of taking things away. It’s what I call them now, and it’s accurate. It says it all. It’s all you need to know about Republicans.

We can argue about their racism and bigotry, we can argue about the parallels between Trump’s rise to power and Hitler’s. We can argue about whether they can call themselves the party of small government with a straight face anymore. We can argue about their hypocrisy. We can argue about how regressive their end goals are. We can argue about their attempts to whitewash history and interfere with institutions of learning. We can argue about their endless suckling at the teat of big business and law enforcement.

But at the end of the day, they are the party of taking things away.

Roe V Wade was a big one but let’s not pretend SCOTUS was doing us any favors before.

• Qualified Immunity
• Free Speech Zones
• Your employer controls your religious rights
• No effective 4th amendment rights
• No right to jury in lower trials that still involve jail time
• Court appointed lawyers are a sham
• Miranda rights don’t exist anymore
• The police can move into your house
• Double trials have become common
• Excessive bail and fines are part of the system
• Corporate money has more political speech than you do