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.

There are no “moderates” in the Republican Party

There are no “moderates” in today’s Republican Party.

We must stop referring to the Republicans who keep quiet as their party is dismantling our Republic as “moderates”.

The issue is that those who we refer to as “moderates”, in fact, agree with and support the extremists. They just want to keep this fact quiet so they can get enough of the uninformed to vote for their “moderate” stance, then they will do the same thing as their extremist brethren.

We should no longer call the MTGs and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) “extremists”. An extremist is a person who holds beliefs and supports actions that are not consistent with mainstream beliefs. The Republicans we refer to as “moderates” are quite representative of the current state of Republican politics. There is nothing “moderate” about them. The Republican Party is the part of extremists who seek to dismantle our Republic.