The Republican Party is building a political bomb.

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54. I have seen no reason yet to expect the kind of response we need to have.

I get the impression that too many Dems are invested in the idea that there are "Normal" republicans left in the party leadership. The GOP metastasized from the Tea Party era onward. Under Cheney/Bush/Neo-Cons they had a taste of how much they could get away with dismantling and destabilizing Federal authority. They also stocked the Police and Military with like-minded zealots. The DNC and the rest of our leadership haven't decided how much of a genuine threat the current GOP is. They seem to ignore the well documented idea that very wealthy white conservatives have coordinated and planned for decades to achieve the overthrow of Democratic Federalism. They have been at it since Truman threw them out of the 1948 convention. They built a propaganda machine to do this and Putin enabled it in ways they had not dreamed of. Now a significant number of ordinary citizens believe that the Democratic President and Party are running the government illegally. This is NOT insignificant. The Truth and a better infrastructure will not make this change. We need much more, and we need to be brutally honest about the goals of the GOP and what they are doing to obtain them. They have taken hostage a number of states through gerrymandering and straight-up ballot theft (as in Ohio and Kentucky). They are now passing outrageous laws by the truckload as a form of secession by state legislative fiat and attempting to disenfranchise anyone who might vote against them. They have set the expectations that any election they do not win must be rigged and are using the Faked-Audit process to create the false impression they are correct. Where this stops I do not know.
I lived in a time when the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ was far more aggressive and assertive of Federal purview. I cannot understand how that is not happening now. I also keep asking why the FBI is not investigating the illegal coordination between Koch, Mercer, the Heritage Foundation, the Council For National Policy, RAGA, and the GOP leadership in Congress prior to during and after Jan. 6th.

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As Republicans pave the way for another insurrection, this one potentially much better attended than the Jan. 6 disaster, the leaders of the party, the "grownups," have abandoned their responsibility to the country, focusing instead on winning the next election. America may blow up, but at least they'll try to eke out a majority in Congress -- even if it means blocking an investigation of the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by enraged Trump supporters.
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Some may view these maneuvers about the Jan. 6 commission, the reluctance to declare the legitimacy of the election and the implications of the increasingly extreme rhetoric as just a sign of a more polarized political system. This thinking fails to grasp the seriousness of what is building. And unless GOP leaders wake up to the danger, the US may soon face something far more dangerous than over-the-top rhetoric and a disputed election.[div]