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Nobody wants to believe what they are seeing: the conversion of one of America’s two major political parties into a cult of personality actively conspiring to overturn democratic rule in the United States. And doing so in broad daylight.
Irish poet William Butler Yeats put it best in “The Second Coming,” a poem written during the turmoil leading up to his country’s civil war: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
I don’t guess I need to stipulate which is which.
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Cheney: Republican Party Is At A Turning Point
Posted by Scott Lucas | May 6, 2021 |
Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from Trumpists over her criticism of Donald Trump and his instigation of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, warns that the Republican Party is a turning point.
Noting Trump’s latest disinformation about a “stolen election” last November, Cheney wrote in The Washington Post on Wednesday, “Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution.”
I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken. More than 60 state and federal courts, including multiple Trump-appointed judges, have rejected the former president’s arguments, and refused to overturn election results. That is the rule of law; that is our constitutional system for resolving claims of election
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Readers express opinions on COVID-19 vaccines, GOP walkouts, the old Republican Party and possible land-use changes.
I m writing to express my complete agreement with Richard Botteri s Feb. 24 letter to the editor, concerning who should be eligible to receive vaccine.
I am also a senior, over age 70, and I also feel that we elders should have lower priority than younger people with underlying health conditions and front-line workers.
We have had, as Mr. Botteri points out, the opportunity to live our lives have careers, children/grandchildren, the chance to make a contribution to society and to enjoy life. If there is not sufficient vaccine to give to everyone right now, those young people, who still have a life ahead of them, should be first in line.
Democracy on the Brink
Democracy on the Brink
One party is racing to fix an ailing electoral system. The other is doing everything in its power to shut voters out of it
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WASHINGTON In the coming weeks, the battle over democracy’s future in America will hit a boil.
On one side is a group that looks at the last election and sees a resilient but damaged system. A system that withstood sometimes only barely a raging pandemic, a conspiracy-theory-peddling president, a major political party all too eager to amplify that president’s lies, a wave of hail-mary lawsuits intended to overthrow the election result, and a violent insurrection in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.