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.

Republicans have digressed to the toddler stage

It’s interesting that American “conservative” ideology — including the Republican Party — has pretty much decayed into the behavior of toddlers — 2- or 3-year-olds.

Angry at Michelle Obama for recommending they eat vegetables.
Mad that vaccinations are ouchy.
Furious about being told to share.
Angry at being told to be polite to others.
Absolutely obsessed with genitalia.
When they don’t get their way, they pitch a fit — throw themselves in the floor, kick, pound the floor with their fists, scream, cry.