Only an infusion of fresh blood can save democracy


Americans cannot allow its democratic system get hijacked by a strongman, insurrectionists or an ever-growing league of fact-denying conspiracy theorists. – Bloomberg

WITH Donald Trump out of the Oval Office and the coup attempt almost two months behind us, the Republican Party has now turned to the business of saving its soul in the United States.

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls out a congressional colleague as a “cancer on the Republican Party”, you know the leadership is concerned. But such statements about the QAnon-supporting Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia or any others in the growing ranks of dangerous elected officials from the fringes, without tangible punitive action, will do nothing to ensure the party is able to permanently renounce borderline authoritarianism and reclaim its more mainstream values.

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