Over the last 8 years, a number of prominent members of the Republican party have come out to say how the current Republican Party is a threat to democracy. Some of these people have even left the party to become independents or, even in a few cases, Democrats. People like Reed Galen, Rick Wilson, Mona Charron, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Steve Schmidt, Charlie Sykes, Tara Stetmeyer, Olivia Troye, Miles Taylor, Michael Steele, Sen Mitt Romney, Joe Scarborough, etc. Even members of the Trump Criminal Organization, I mean administration, have said they will not be voting for Trump. What almost none of these people have done with the exceptions of Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens and maybe Nicholle Wallace and David Jolly is apologized nor acknowledged they were instrumental in creating this threat to democracy.
They spent decades courting the fascist elements of America to take power through any means possible. Going back to Nixon, the Republican Party has used corporate cash, racism, an unelected SCOTUS, and, on a few occasions, treason to steal elections and deny the American people a fair voice in their government. After winning these elections, the Republican Party then went on to steal SCOTUS seats and use the filibuster to lock in their power. They also did little in the way of legislating besides giving massive tax cuts to the rich, deregulating nearly everything to allow businesses to screw over ordinary Americans by suppressing wages, shipping jobs overseas, dirtying our environment and even causing people to become sick and injured. (I could add much more here like lying us into a war that killed hundreds of thousands and including thousands of American soldiers) Even when Democrats are able to overcome the roadblocks to becoming an elected majority, Republicans use their corrupt SCOTUS fascists and the filibuster to prevent Democrats from governing to better people's lives.
Yes, some of these Republicans are working hard to keep Republicans from winning, but as anyone who has been to AA knows, you cannot begin to fix yourself until you acknowledge your problem and step 9 is making amends.
I hope this is not our last Independence Day a democracy and a republic.
If anyone has evidence of other Republicans or former Republicans, especially people I listed, who have either apologized or acknowledged their roles in creating this threat to American Democracy, I will gladly update the diary.
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