Today’s GOP is against democracy, law enforcement, local control and education, writes Howard Lehman.
A crowd gathers at a candlelight vigil for democracy at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building on Jan. 6, 2022.Labeling the violent attack against the U.S. Capitol by the National Republican Committee as “legitimate political discourse” was the last straw.
What is most troubling about this brand of extremism is not the healthy expression of competing political ideologies and policies within our traditional democratic institutions, but fanatical opposition to these institutions and values of a democratic society. Indeed, the Republican Party has become an Anti-Party.
Third, the Republican Party stands against public health. At the start of the pandemic, the leaders and supporters of this party minimized the virus, shamed those who sought to protect themselves and others, and undermined the efforts to vaccinate Americans. In Utah, we have legislators who explicitly threaten the public’s health with laws prohibiting the use of public health mandates.
Finally, the Republicans constant attacks against the police, the judiciary, the media, our intelligence community and local control over the electoral process have led directly to the most distressing element of the Anti-Party: the view that the 2020 election was illegitimate and the attack against the U.S. Capitol was simply “legitimate political discourse.”
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