"They've been after the right to abortion for decades. The next thing they did was go after the Voting Rights Act. And just watch: They'll go after Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act next.
Nothing is sacred to Republicans anymore. Not the right to vote. Not the right to be free of search and seizure in your own home. Not the right to be free of religion if you so choose. Not the right to be free of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed or national origin. The only 'right' they respect in this day and age is the right to follow Donald Trump, and they are in the process of turning that right, at least within their own Republican Party, into an obligation. To have rights, such as those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, is a founding principle of democracy. To impose obligations, as in the obligation to adhere unquestioningly to a leader, is a principle of authoritarianism." (our emphasis) -- Lucian K. Truscott IV, writing in Salon about the far-right's aggressive, and potentially violent push to impose its "America" on us.
With their neo-fascist, mentally unstable Dear Leader promising to hold MAGA rallies this summer to push his Big Lie, encourage sedition, attack the disloyal, and scoop up some cash from his cult, Republicans who were trying to gaslight the January 6 violent insurrection that he led may find his appearances awkward. He'll talk more about his grievances, both old and new, than anything they might want him to. Nonetheless, they've cast their lot with him and his radical, delusional and lawless followers, because, in the pursuit of power, nothing is sacred to them.
