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Republicans are attacking the heart of our democracy the same way they did 1964 — and for the very same reason
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Republicans are attacking the heart of our democracy the same way they did 1964 — and for the very same reason
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Will we be governed by representatives we elect, or people put in office by angry mobs storming capitols?
Nations have to figure out how they are to be governed. Most of recorded history tells the story of kings, popes, priests, lords and barons who ruled through violence and imposed themselves on their people rather than the people selecting them.
That was the great American experiment. Replacing a violent hereditary warlord king with a president and congress elected by the people. Democracy.
But democracy only functions properly when the people trust that its essential mechanism — voting — is honest and true.
And that dependence on trust in elections — that vulnerability of all democracies — is exactly where Donald Trump and his fascist followers are aiming their weapons of mass deception.
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