In a few years, when writers analyze the decade between 2010 and 2020, they'll mark the 2010 rise of the Tea Party as the beginning of @GOP political decline. It actually began much earlier than that, in the 1930s with their intransigent opposition to all change.
https://twitter.com/WHarpine/status/1345446943670087680
They will mark Kim Davis' refusal to obey #SCOTUS in 2014 as the moment Republicans chose anarchy over law and order, although the seeds were sown decades before with the election of Ronald Reagan.
And, they will point to January 6th, 2021, as the day the party of Lincoln chose autocracy over democracy in a last ditch effort to resuscitate the "white Christian Republic", the fevered dream antebellum southern ministers like Samuel Davies Baldwin.
On January 6th, in the U.S. House and Senate, our nation will witness the demise of a national party and our nation will be all the better for its destruction. Let's hope that what rises from the ashes is more a testament to Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt than #DonTheCon.
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