https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/05/trump-is-trying-to-thwart-democracy-itself-but-the-problem-is-deeper-than-one-man
"Trump is trying to thwart democracy itself. But the problem is deeper than one man.
Republicans have carefully cultivated rot in the voting system.
It didn’t start with Trump and it won’t end after he leaves."
"The rot runs deep inside a Republican party that has not only lost faith
in democracy but bet its future on rule-rigging and minority rule.
The party has subverted free and fair elections for years, in ways so
ordinary that they’ve been accepted as politics as usual for far too long."
"Trump was created, in part, by the preceding years of gerrymandering
and voter suppression that put the most extreme voices in control.
They’re not going anywhere. They remain in power. They have not been chastened.
There will be a next time. Our democracy may not be so lucky."
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party fundamentally
committed to voter suppression and perpetual (future) white minority rule.
Most white Americans support the Republican Party because that's evidently what they want.
Conflict is inevitable as non-white minorities increase in numbers in the USA.
There will be a ruthless war fought at the polls, in the courts, in the media,
and in the streets.
"Trump is trying to thwart democracy itself. But the problem is deeper than one man.
Republicans have carefully cultivated rot in the voting system.
It didn’t start with Trump and it won’t end after he leaves."
"The rot runs deep inside a Republican party that has not only lost faith
in democracy but bet its future on rule-rigging and minority rule.
The party has subverted free and fair elections for years, in ways so
ordinary that they’ve been accepted as politics as usual for far too long."
"Trump was created, in part, by the preceding years of gerrymandering
and voter suppression that put the most extreme voices in control.
They’re not going anywhere. They remain in power. They have not been chastened.
There will be a next time. Our democracy may not be so lucky."
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party fundamentally
committed to voter suppression and perpetual (future) white minority rule.
Most white Americans support the Republican Party because that's evidently what they want.
Conflict is inevitable as non-white minorities increase in numbers in the USA.
There will be a ruthless war fought at the polls, in the courts, in the media,
and in the streets.