You can probably count on two hands the number of actors that saved American democracy.

[mobeau69]

It was damn near gone.

[Irish_Dem]

1. This is far from over. Putin/GOP just warming up.

[TDale313]

4. This. We survived 2020. We're not out of the woods.

Our democracy is hanging by a thread, and Repugs in red and blue states are gaming the system hard. If we don’t shore up election integrity and stop this voter suppression, we’re in serious trouble. And if they regain the House and/or Senate, expect them to make sure they never lose another National Election. We have very little wiggle room here. We already have to deal with the fact that being in the majority is not actually enough, but I don’t know that people get that a huge number of our fellow citizens and nearly everyone in Republican leadership no longer believe in the peaceful transfer of power. They believe God is on their side and so they are justified in anything they do to retain power. How do we fight that?

[Irish_Dem]

5. Many people are in denial. Others don't care.

And many are fine with the death of democracy as long as white Christian males are running the show.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. GOP had to wait for John McCain, Orrin Hatch, Jack Kemp, and Bob Dole to die

to get away with this.

[empedocles]

3. Impressive how top DOJ officials, informed the Deputy Ag's, staff across the U.S., etc.

in the 100's, to where trump reversed his own decision to not appoint clark [aka the 'pajama man''].

[mobeau69]

6. Blew my mind. The cohesion was impressive and fast.

We still have some patriots left. Trump is a cancer on the body politic.

[brush]

7. Got to give it to Clark, a mid-level DOJ environment flunky...er, ahh...lawyer...

a nobody really, but he took a shot and went for the top spot at DOJ.

He failed miserably, thank God, and his house was raided by the FBI today and he's undoubtedly waiting for the other shoe to drop now...which is assuredly an indictment for his coordination with trump in the attempted coup.