America almost lost its democracy. Here's how its citizens can protect it

[signalmankenneth]

(CNN) As we swear in a new President and look to a new era in Washington DC, a cloud of anger and fear hangs over America after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol. President-elect Joe Biden has big plans and a serious mandate, but he will have to govern a divided nation, one that was nearly torn apart by a mob hellbent on destroying it. I talk to US Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut and CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen about what comes next for America's fragile democracy. But first, Rep. Himes writes this week's CNN op-ed. --SE Cupp

On January 6, America almost lost its democracy. I was in the House chamber as officers piled furniture in front of doors and pointed their weapons at insurrectionists intent on tearing down humankind's most recognized temple to self-government.

Many of us win elections by trashing the institution we desperately want to join. We campaign on draining the swamp, destroying the establishment, ending business-as-usual -- and then we're puzzled when we return home to rage and suspicion.

Worse, and fatally, too many of us tell the American people that the opposition is not just wrong, but evil, immoral and a threat to the country.

And let's be clear: There's a short fuse between Republican cries of election fraud and a police officer being beaten by an angry pro-Trump mob on the Capitol's steps.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/opini...mes/index.html

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[Jack]

'Disinformation'. There has to be something done about the disinformation being spread. We can't have 'alternative facts'.

[BidenPresident]

Reagan claimed that government was the enemy. Yet he sought and won two terms as President.

[Celticguy]

It DID lose its democracy. The fraud is almost complete.

[Underdog]

America almost lost its democracy.



they hysterics and hyperbole are too much..

[Underdog]

its amazing how the democrats spent the last 4 years undermining the duly elected potus including coordinating with foreign agents to create a fake dossier used to get fisa warrants are crying over a single protest.

[CFM]

Reagan claimed that government was the enemy. Yet he sought and won two terms as President.

That's not what he claimed. Unlike you lefties, Reagan believed government wasn't the solution to problems but that government sticking it's nose in where it didn't belong created far more problems than it solved.

[BidenPresident]

That's not what he claimed. Unlike you lefties, Reagan believed government wasn't the solution to problems but that government sticking it's nose in where it didn't belong created far more problems than it solved.

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ron...ral-address-2/

[Legion]

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ron...ral-address-2/

Oddly, I don't see any reference to our government as "the enemy".

Reagan claimed that government was the enemy. Yet he sought and won two terms as President.

[CFM]

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ron...ral-address-2/

I know the quote. I explained it and your dumbass still doesn't get it. Only someone that relies on the government to do for him what he should be doing for himself thinks like you. Why are you so weak you need the government finding solutions for your problems?

[BidenPresident]

I know the quote. I explained it and your dumbass still doesn't get it. Only someone that relies on the government to do for him what he should be doing for himself thinks like you. Why are you so weak you need the government finding solutions for your problems?

Then you think Reagan was a weak pussy.

[domer76]

America almost lost its democracy.



they hysterics and hyperbole are too much..

Two branches of government were ready and willing to declare the election null and void. The judicial branch held up its end in preserving democracy.

[CFM]

Then you think Reagan was a weak pussy.

Unlike a weak pussy like you, Reagan understood the reliance on the government to solve your problems was wasting time and meaningless.

Why can't you solve your own problems, weakling?

[Grokmaster]

Reagan claimed that government was the enemy. Yet he sought and won two terms as President.

TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT GRAVY TRAIN, AS BIDEN IS.

[Trumpet]

TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT GRAVY TRAIN, AS BIDEN IS.

Gobbledygook, are you still posting foolish nonsense????????????????????????