We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost politics – and Donald Trump has encouraged it
America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government.
What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy whenThe two Tennessee Democrats who Republicans expelled from the Tennessee house have been restored to their seats until special elections are held, but the damage to democracy cannot be easily undone.
We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost Trump Republican politics – scorched-earth tactics used by Republicans to entrench their power, with no justification other than that they. Under it, citizens don’t have to agree on ends as long as we agree on democratic means for handling our disagreements.
Voters in Wisconsin’s eighth senatorial district decided to send Republican Dan Knodl to the state senate. This gives the Wisconsin Republican party a supermajority – and with it, the power to remove key state officials, including judges, through impeachment. Recall that in 2018, after Wisconsin voters elected a Democratic governor and attorney general, the Republican legislature and the lame duck Republican governor responded by significantly cutting back the power of both offices.
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