The following might seem counter-intuitive given the understandable relief most Biden supporters feel[myself included] after he defeated Trump and did such an excellent job making vaccines available for all American adults. However, three critical post-election actions by the
2] Republican Party and its most rabid followers suggest that the risk of losing our democracy is even greater now than before Biden's victory. First, the violent premeditated insurrection was designed to postpone the electoral count in Congress so Trump could declare martial law
3] Put simply, it was the first step of a violent coup to keep Trump in office. So far, our Justice Department has not been able to hold the king-makers behind this plot to defeat the will of the electorate accountable. The second critical series of actions involved the passage
4]]of blatant voter suppression legislation designed to disenfranchise minority voters by barring voting by mail and other measures prolonging the time frame for voting. All of these voter suppression strategies were enacted by Republican controlled state legislatures. The third
5]]critical event is the attempt of most congressional Republicans to prevent the enactment of a commission whose sole task would be to identify those individuals who had triggered the violent insurrection not only by their words promoting the big lie but by their actions to
6]organize and mobilize the different militant groups of foot soldiers who falsely but sincerely believed that the election had been "stolen". If the leaders of the attempted violent coup are never held accountable and the voter suppression legislation is not invalidated, why
7]should these anti-democratic forces abstain from any future actions to undermine our democracy?
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