Bernie Sanders Compares Republican Tactics to China's 'Growing Authoritarianism'

[Uncle Joe]

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"Republicans want a cold war with China because of its growing authoritarianism. That stance is coming from a party that refuses to acknowledge Biden's election victory, investigate the January 6th insurrection, and is working overtime to suppress the vote," the senator tweeted.

Republicans in state legislatures across the country have pushed through election reforms that Democrats and activists argue will restrict access to voting—particularly for communities of color. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump and many Republican lawmakers continue to baselessly claim that President Joe Biden won the presidential election through widespread fraud.

The claims of fraud motivated hundreds of Trump's supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in an effort to overturn Biden's victory in the 2020 election. On Friday, Republican senators blocked a bipartisan commission that would investigate the events surrounding the insurrection, invoking the first legislative filibuster of Biden's presidency.

A relatively small faction of Republican lawmakers have condemned Trump and GOP leaders who continue to support him. Following the insurrection against the Capitol, 10 House Republicans voted with their Democratic colleagues to impeach Trump. In the Senate, seven GOP senators voted with Democrats to convict the former president for inciting the violent mob. Although this was the most bipartisan impeachment vote against a president in U.S. history, it failed to achieve the high constitutional threshold of a two-thirds majority required for a successful conviction.

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https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-compares-republican-tactics-chinas-growing-authoritarianism-1596239

[dalton99a]

1. Republicans want perpetual one-party rule.

They have much in common with the communists in Russia, China, and North Korea

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Pretty accurate.

That's their goal.

[SMC22307]

3. He's right and more Democrats need to be saying this.

Unity and bipartisanship are bullshit -- McConnell has made that crystal clear since Obama.

[pnwmom]

4. Earth to Bernie: China's always been authoritarian. nt

[George II]

5. I don't think the January 6 insurrection had anything to do with China.