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“They don’t deserve to be in power. Not because Democrats should, but because they don’t deserve to be in power.”
— DNC chair Jaime Harrison slammed the Republican Party, saying “it is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism,” Axios reports.
“It’s easy to gloss over what the Republicans do in a Trumpian fog of outrage. But we need to be crystal clear about the meaning of this resolution. One of America’s two political parties passed an official resolution declaring a violent insurrection that led to deaths, assaults on police officers, and calls for the murder of politicians to be ‘legitimate discourse.’ … The RNC is legitimizing political violence. Pure and simple.”
“These power grabs highlight one of the most disturbing facts about American politics today: The Republican Party has become institutionally indifferent to the health of democracy. It prioritizes power over principle to such an extreme degree that it undermines the most basic functioning of democracy. … In the long run, the GOP’s turn against democracy could well be a greater threat to the American experiment than anything President Trump has done.”
