'The American Republic Is Hanging By A Thread:' Timothy Snyder, Fascism Historian, Yale Univ.

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1. He helped prepare us to see what we have seen come to pass because he saw it here years ago.

And now the drive to naked authoritarian power reaches Republicans in Congress.

other Republicans saw the situation differently: They might actually break the system and have power without democracy. The split between these two groups, the gamers and the breakers, became sharply visible on Dec. 30, when Senator Josh Hawley announced that he would support Trump’s challenge by questioning the validity of the electoral votes on Jan. 6. Ted Cruz then promised his own support, joined by about 10 other senators. More than a hundred Republican representatives took the same position.

Here they are. Telling us the abyss isn't the abyss. Now they want us to buy their twisted words of "unity" through their fake healing, posed as "rising above," "forgiving and forgetting," "both sides" -- all of which got us to the abyss.