'Republicans putting US on path towards oligarchy and fascism'

The Republican Party, which will be in total control of the White House and Congress from the beginning of next year, is better than the Democrats in projecting a forward path towards oligarchy and fascism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. 

Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a report which says the bitter 2016 US presidential race is turning into a battle even as elections are over, with the campaign aides of defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton vowing a four-year insurgency against incoming President Donald Trump.

Clinton’s vast network of supporters, staffers and operatives, enraged by the victory of a president-elect they view as disgraceful, are plotting an anti-Trump resistance and venting with a fury they never could have expressed during the presidential campaign of their flawed and awkward candidate, Politico reported.

GOP and Dems both have same goals

“Why should the acrimony of the election end now that the votes have been counted, before they're recounted? Both parties selected the two most hated politicians in America. Expect them to play nice now that it's over?” Hoenig asked.

“Both sides have enormous stakes in this. The Democrats want to continue the rightward march towards absolute oligarchy with Clinton the natural leader. The Republicans want the same goals, but also an end to the Obama regime which they believed was liberal. Amazing that both parties haven't merged by now, but even if they did, they'd represent the views of likely less than half of all eligible voters. When fighting over so little, people often fight the hardest,” he stated.

“The 'liberal' groups that are supporting Clinton in her efforts to retake the White House are a litany of NGOs, party hacks, and organizations that could only survive when their elite is in power. Some are attempting to thwart the final electoral vote, as the candidate for the Green Party, Jill Stein, appears to be doing, regardless of her claim that it's to protect electoral integrity and that she is not supported by her party on this. She's gone rogue!”

‘Democrats might quiver and fold’

“Many of the groups that support Clinton are rightfully afraid that a Republican control of the executive and legislative branches will deny them funds and prevent support for such things as medical treatment for women's care, labor protection, environmental issues, etc,” the analyst said.

“Unfortunately for them, we have seen with a Democratic president and at times control of Congress, their fate was never assured. Also, there is a realistic fear that with Republican control, Democrats will quiver and fold like they often do when the more sophisticated political strategists of the Republican Party are running things,” he stated.

‘Republicans did the impossible’

“The Republicans did the impossible. They chose someone their near-total establishment opposed, and even supported the opposition,” Hoenig said.

“In 2017 they will control the US government for the first time since President George W. Bush, and intermittently since 1928. The enormous amount of control, damage, and long-term philosophical directions to take is now in their hands. They are just better at it than the Democrats in the control, damage and projecting a forward path towards oligarchy and fascism,” he stated.

“We don't know how this will end. Recounts are happening now and both sides are lawyering up. In 2000 the Democrats capitulated to the judicial coup d'etat that gave us George Bush but the Republicans are usually made of stronger stuff,” the political commentator concluded.

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