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The Republican-Led War on American Democracy Might End Our Nation
Their singularity of purpose unites behind one thing: ending American democracy
A lot of people don’t understand this right now, but American democracy is in shambles. Most people are still walking around going on about their daily lives blissfully unaware of the changes that have gone on since the January 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol alone.
Since then, the Republican Party has not only doubled down on its insistence that the Capitol riot wasn’t a big deal, telling us we should “just move on,” but they’ve even stonewalled any attempts by the Senate to investigate what happened and who was involved.
In a move that infuriated centrist and democrats alike, Republicans have chosen to not give the American people answers; answers about what happened on one of the most infamous days in American history — the day our nation’s Capitol was besieged for the first time since the war of 1812.
Only this time, the enemy was domestic, not foreign.
As this has unfolded, most of us have been walking around without seriously grasping the danger it signals.
Like climate change, the fledgling nature of our democracy is something we push back to the corners of our minds so…
