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Trump, not Putin Is The Biggest Threat To American Democracy.
The sooner something is done about this the better.
That the Republican party is dead isn’t in dispute.
That the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan has surrendered to its lunatic fringe and embraced the politics of the extreme is no longer fodder for debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
That the leading voices of the GOP in 2022, aren’t the moderates in their midst, but those who believe in gay conversion therapy, reject climate change science, and ingratiate themselves with dictators around the world is a major cause for concern for all right minded folks around the world.
And we know that one man more than any other in the last thirty years has bent the party to its will.
Donald John Trump.
When news emerged a few days ago that the former American president had reached out to the Russian strongman, with a view to getting information that might undermine the current leader of the free world, we knew that we had plumbed a new low in the strangling of democracy.
This is much worse than what Richard Nixon did in 1973 when he had people storm the Watergate building to plant spying devices on his opponents in a bid to sate his paranoia.