Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Rep. Adam Kinzinger: We are playing with fire and it has to stop" video.
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The hope of many conservative critics of DJT was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up being no more than an ugly parenthesis. The GOP would distance itself from Trump and Trumpism, and become a normal party once again.
But that dream soon died. The Trump presidency might have been only the first act in a longer and even darker political drama, in which the Republican Party is becoming more radicalized.
Having alienated college-educated suburban voters, many Republicans decided their best bet is to keep their contracting coalition in a state of constant agitation and fear, combatants in a never-ending culture war, “embattled warriors making a last stand." And that, in turn, requires them to feed the base even bigger lies and falsehoods.
Today, the Republican Party is a grave threat to American democracy, and unless and until Republicans summon the wit and the will to salvage the party, ruin will follow.
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