The modern Republican Party can no longer be trusted to protect American democracy. Period.
Amy Davidson Sorkin in the New Yorker last August, “may have become too enraptured by the idea of their own cleverness or toughness” to recognize they were “immers themselves deeper in folly” by boosting the candidacies of pro-Trump Republicans. “It’s dishonorable, and it’s dangerous, and it’s just damn wrong,”Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, to risk putting people in Congress who would undermine the nation’s democratic guardrails.
This contingent – along with a handful of others – were seen as the few bulwarks within the GOP willing to stand up and fight for basic democratic norms. But last week’s vote confirms that electing any Republican, even those who are not fully indoctrinated in pro-MAGA thinking, risks placing American democracy in peril.
But aside from the immediate political ramifications – and Meijer’s past acts of political courage – his re-election would have brought Republicans one step closer to a majority in the House. He would almost certainly have voted to make House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, or some other Republican leader, the next speaker of the House. That would be same McCarthy, and the same Republican leadership, whoits members to vote against the Electoral Reform Act.
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