How The Republican Party Became A Party That Believes The Constitution Only Applies To Its Enemies
If you vote for this party for any reason—if you prioritize any policy preference over the preservation of constitutional democracy—you are complicit in the destruction of the American republic. You are helping to dismantle the system that makes political disagreement possible in the first place.
The constitutional conservatives didn’t abandon the Republican Party. The Republican Party abandoned them. What remains is the advancing edge of American fascism dressed up in constitutional rhetoric.
Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. And anyone who can’t see that the modern Republican Party represents an existential threat to constitutional democracy is either willfully blind or actively complicit in its destruction.
It’s gotten to the point where I’m done trying to pretend that not all those who vote for the GOP are part of the problem. I look at everyone who supports the current Republican party as the problem.