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Every Day Is January 6 Now
January 1, 2022 at 6:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/01/every-day-is-january-6-now/
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From a New York Times NY Times editorial:
Our political life seems more or less normal these days, as the president pardons turkeys and Congress quarrels over spending bills. But peel back a layer, and things are far from normal. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day.
It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, When can we use the guns? and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still dominates one of the nations two major political parties.
In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists. Rather, survival depends on looking back and forward at the same time.
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riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)In Madison Square Gardens. NYC. 20 k american nazis.
Will they succeed this time?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)really?? Did I miss something in the translation?