28-05-2021 19:54 via theguardian.com

Republicans’ blocking of the Capitol commission shows how deep the rot is

Analysis: one of America’s two major parties now falls outside the democratic mainstream but are Democrats taking the existential threat seriously?The question now is not so much whether the Republican party can be saved any time in the foreseeable future. It is what Joe Biden and the Democrats should do when faced with a party determined to subvert democracy through any means necessary, including violence.On Friday Republicans in the Senate torpedoed an effort to create a bipartisan commi
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