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.

This is what passes for Republican concern about Paul Whelan

2018: Whelan is arrested in Russia, charged with spying for the US, imprisoned on phony charges. Action by Trump administration to free Whelan: . . .

2019: Trump and Republican action to free Whelan: . . . . . . .

2020: Trump and Republican action to free Whelan: . . . . . . .

2021: Trump and Republican action to free Whelan: . . . . . . .

2022: Biden frees Britney Griner. Republicans lose their minds because a gay black female is freed while a Marine with a bad conduct discharge remains in jail in Russia. Where was their concern for Whelan in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 . . . . .