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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Atlantic: Worse Than Treason
Forget all the whispered denials and the off-the-record expressions of concern in private; ignore the knowing smirks on camera from GOP officials who are desperately trying to indicate that theyre in on the joke. Brush aside the caviling of the anti-anti-Trump writers who would rather talk about that time in 2017 when some Democrats objected to the Electoral College vote (and were gaveled down by Joe Biden himself).
This is sedition, plain and simple. No amount of playacting and rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party and its apologists are advocating for the overthrow of an American election and the continued rule of a sociopathic autocrat.
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The sedition caucus is worse than a treasonous conspiracy. At least real traitors believe in something. These people instead believe only in their own fortunes and thus will change flags and loyalties as circumstances require. They will always become what they pretend to be, and so they cannotand must notbe trusted ever again with political power.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/what-republicans-are-doing-worse-treason/617538/
tavernier
(12,388 posts)This is a must read. Unfortunately it wont be read by those who should.
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Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)They're Loeffler and Perdue. But that will change with tomorrow's election!
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)volstork
(5,400 posts)Mine are hagerty and blackburn. Fat lot of good THAT will do.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)We need detox of decades long administration.
triron
(22,003 posts)Blue Owl
(50,362 posts)orangecrush
(19,551 posts)2naSalit
(86,601 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)malaise
(268,993 posts)Rec
zentrum
(9,865 posts)We have a really serious problem.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)This is Happening in The United States of America for crying out loud.
In my 6 decades on this Earth, this happens in OTHER Countries.
Not here.
BarbD
(1,192 posts)If we are lucky enough to win the Georgia Senate elections, McConnell will refuse to accept the results.
In effect, this is a war for civility. A Civil War?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)of congress who are trying to steal another term for him to resign? I can't find it in the article.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)badboy67
(460 posts)calls from the psychopathic killer, and that the calls are coming from inside your own home!
triron
(22,003 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)At least, not as it applies to this situation. These people *pretend* to be caretakers of the nation and its business, and they are not even close to that.
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