As thousands of extremists poured past police and barricades into the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 in a desperate attempt to stop the counting of electoral votes and certification of Joe Biden's victory in the November presidential election, Americans were understandably shocked. No one should be surprised. The attack didn't come out of nowhere and neither did the Republican politicians supporting, organizing and encouraging it. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., are not radicals within their party and their actions are nothing other than completely in keeping with what has been the mission of their party since reconstruction . It was never acceptable for the media, or anyone for that matter, to let things go as far as they have without recognizing the fundamental truth underlying everything that has happened in the past weeks, months or century even. The party that we call Republicans now — but was first incarnated as the Democratic party following the American Civil War — is an organized antidemocratic institution with the expressed (and far too often explicitly stated) goal of maintaining the tyranny of the minority over the rights of the majority. They have gone about doing this by restricting voting rights,… Read full this story
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