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.
Let’s recap.
It wasn’t a Democrat.
It wasn’t a liberal.
It wasn’t a Marxist.
It wasn’t a communist.
It wasn’t a socialist.
It wasn’t a gay person.
It wasn’t a trans person.
It wasn’t a drag queen.
It wasn’t a black person.
It wasn’t a Muslim.
It wasn’t an atheist.
It wasn’t a Jewish person.
It wasn’t an illegal immigrant.
It wasn’t any of the people he said are poisoning the blood of Americans.
He was white and Christian and male and a registered Republican.