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The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him.

By Dana Milbank

The problem is that one of our two major political parties has ceased good-faith participation in the democratic process. Of course, there are instances of violence, disinformation, racism and corruption among Democrats and the political left, but the scale isn’t at all comparable. Only one party fomented a bloody insurrection and even after that voted in large numbers (139 House Republicans, a two-thirds majority) to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 election. Only one party promotes a web of conspiracy theories in place of facts. Only one party is trying to restrict voting and discredit elections. Only one party is stoking fear of minorities and immigrants.

Republicans have become an authoritarian faction fighting democracy — and there’s a perfectly logical reason for this: Democracy is working against Republicans. In the eight presidential contests since 1988, the GOP candidate has won a majority of the popular vote only once, in 2004.

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The Republican behavior is due to their being strong defenders of capitalism which is in crisis.

The age of supposedly benevolent capitalism in the West has disappeared. We are seeing its naked face which the global South has always seen.

The Republicans are merely craven servants of capitalism and the race privilege it has created for whites. As always, reactionary religion serves the tool of capitalist interests.

Krish55 Level 8 Aug 5, 2022
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You are exactly correct but the Republican party wants to switch it all over on the Democrats. Things that the right are doing seems to be called out as the left and the problem is that devout right loyalists believe it. This is why you hear of Antifa and others dressing up as insurrectionists and doing things to discredit the right. Is it bullshit or just nonsense?

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