Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

65 years ago today, Sep 4, 1957

Today 65 years ago, the Little Rock Nine, a group of black teenagers in Arkansas, were harassed and blocked from entering all white Little Rock Central High School by white citizens and Gov. Faubus using the Arkansas National Guard.

Notice the good Christians attacking this teenager.

The South was solidly Democratic. Then several things happened:

President Truman ordered the US military be desegregated. Southern Democrats were so angry that Truman’s name was not on the ballot in Alabama in 1948.
Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
White Southerners fled the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party, thanks to Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”.

And today, the South is solidly Republican because the Republican Party is the party of racial division and hatred.