Clarification

It gives me no pleasure to call out the Republican Party as the party of anti-democracy, but that's what it has been ever since Reagan was elected. I was born in the Eisenhower administration, helmed by a Republican who was unambiguously antifa. I have never been a Republican or an admirer of a party that, in the words of William F. Buckely, Jr: " . . . stands athwart history, yelling Stop . . ." But I admit that in many ways, I'm deeply conservative. I won't go into why that's true, but circumstances have placed the US and the champions of Democracy (including me) in existential peril, and as a patriot, I call out the party that enabled it. The American GOP aided and abetted this:

"It’s important to understand that the sociopathic Putin is the sole cause of so much present suffering in the world—and that the Republican Party has been his domestic adjuncts here in the United States—because understanding this helps explain why under no circumstances can Putin back down from his current plan to subjugate and annex all of Ukraine."

If you love life, and if you wish it for your children and grandchildren, you need to read and understand the history that Seth Abramson recounts at the link. And understand why Putin, Trump and the current GOP are existential threats to America and everything we hold dear.

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-ten-hardest-truths-about-the?s=r&fbclid=IwAR3NAtWeiS2PiKpqS-4AyhaF0HT75E1U1wV3EgpGqxJb2e_OV5MJ3AteeQg