Republicans Are America's Problem
by Charles Blow, for NYT, on Lawrence Show now.
Tuesday’s primary in Wyoming delivered Liz Cheney a resounding defeat. She is one of the few Republicans in Congress willing to resist Donald Trump’s election lies, and Republican voters punished her for it.
First, let me say, I have no intention of contributing to the hagiography of Liz Cheney. She is a rock-ribbed Republican who supported Trump’s legislative positions 93 percent of the time. It is on the insurrection and election lies where she diverged.
In a way, she is the Elvis of politics: She took something — in this case a position — that others had held all along and made it cross over. She mainstreamed a political principle that many liberals had held all along.
Excuse me if I temper my enthusiasm for a person who presents herself as a great champion of democracy but votes against the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Situational morality is better than none, I suppose, but I see it for what it is, and I am minimally moved.
However, her loss does crystallize something for us that many had already known: that the bar to clear in the modern Republican Party isn’t being sufficiently conservative but rather being sufficiently obedient to Donald Trump and his quest to deny and destroy democracy.
We must stop thinking it hyperbolic to say that the Republican Party itself is now a threat to our democracy. I understand the queasiness about labeling many of our fellow Americans in that way. I understand that it sounds extreme and overreaching.>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion/republicans-cheney-trump-democracy.html
He says 'Conservatism' has always been against democracy.
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And gene spliced Fear of the Unfamiliar 
With Reverend Sonny Ca$h's Jeebus Revival & the Chamber of Commerce 
marching band.
Now its an "ism", soon to have its own diagnostic code.
