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 must be very disappointed

No doubt Republicans are very upset that the shooter was not any of these:

An illegal immigrant
A member of “Antifa”
A black man
A Middle Easterner
A democratic activist
A climate activist
A volunteer to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign
A registered democrat

The shooter is none of those things. He now appears to be an isolated white young man with his father’s AR-15. It is a story told over and over and over again.

The howling hyenas in the Republican Party who came out last night blaming President Biden, Democrats in general, the gall of Democrats to point out the threat of Trump’s Project 2025, and DEI are never going to apologize. That is a given.