From Pine View Farm

Devolution, Reprise 0

The Portland Press-Herald’s Greg Kesich sees an ominous trend (emphasis added):

The assault on democracy didn’t start when Donald Trump fired up a mob of fanatics on the National Mall last Jan. 6. High ranking Republicans have been trashing the legitimacy of elections for years, priming supporters to believe that they have to literally fight for their freedom.

At some point, the party went from hating Democrats to hating democracy . . . .

Follow the link for his reasoning.

Aside:

I can’t tell you exactly when the tipping point came about, but I can tell you when the tipping started: When Richard Nixon implemented the “southern strategy” (an idea, by the way, that he did not originate) and welcomed overt bigotry and racism into the Republican Party.

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