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The media insist on giving credit where it is not due at calling seditious, insurrectionist and anti-American conspiring repukes or GOPers lawmakers considering what they have done thus far is a desecration of the law and attempting to pass seditious bills that attack democracy and the wellbeing of society and humanity. Case in point:
Republicans are plotting to destroy democracy from within
Opportunism and cowardice has more than sufficed to make Republicans espouse a noxious falsehood as an axiomatic truth
At hand is a plot to destroy American democracy from within. Its organizers have infiltrated the highest echelons of state and federal government, and have instigated and condoned acts of violence directed against our elected officials. This might sound far-fetched. But the threat is real and the seditious group is none other than the Republican party. Its target is the 2024 presidential election.
Less than a year ago, Donald Trump limped from the White House a badly discredited figure, roundly condemned for having instigated a shocking attack against a coordinate branch of government. The 6 January insurrection seemed like a wake-up call to Republican lawmakers. No longer could they indulge the self-serving story that Trump was simply an uncouth, untraditional president. The reality was stark and undeniable. The president was at heart a petty autocrat, willing to torch democracy to cling to power.
The wake-up call went unheeded. The critical inflection point came during the second impeachment trial, when Republican senators had the opportunity to join Democrats in condemning Trump. And while seven Republican senators voted along with all 50 Democrats to convict, this still left the Senate 10 votes short of the 67 needed to hold Trump to account."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/17/republicans-plotting-destroy-democracy
The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the U.S. election if they believed Donald Trump lost the presidency because of election fraud. Most dodged the question.
https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKERS/xegpbedzdvq/
Republicans are plotting to destroy democracy from within
Opportunism and cowardice has more than sufficed to make Republicans espouse a noxious falsehood as an axiomatic truth
At hand is a plot to destroy American democracy from within. Its organizers have infiltrated the highest echelons of state and federal government, and have instigated and condoned acts of violence directed against our elected officials. This might sound far-fetched. But the threat is real and the seditious group is none other than the Republican party. Its target is the 2024 presidential election.
Less than a year ago, Donald Trump limped from the White House a badly discredited figure, roundly condemned for having instigated a shocking attack against a coordinate branch of government. The 6 January insurrection seemed like a wake-up call to Republican lawmakers. No longer could they indulge the self-serving story that Trump was simply an uncouth, untraditional president. The reality was stark and undeniable. The president was at heart a petty autocrat, willing to torch democracy to cling to power.
The wake-up call went unheeded. The critical inflection point came during the second impeachment trial, when Republican senators had the opportunity to join Democrats in condemning Trump. And while seven Republican senators voted along with all 50 Democrats to convict, this still left the Senate 10 votes short of the 67 needed to hold Trump to account."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/17/republicans-plotting-destroy-democracy
The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the U.S. election if they believed Donald Trump lost the presidency because of election fraud. Most dodged the question.
https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKERS/xegpbedzdvq/
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