Trump's Republicans have dumped Lincoln – they're the Confederacy now | Lloyd Green
by Lloyd Green from US news | The Guardian on (#5CC5Z)
Never mind sedition - for the secession caucus, defeat by Barack Obama's successor and a black woman is just too much to bear
On Wednesday, the Republicans' transition to the party of the Confederacy will be complete. A day after Georgia's runoff elections, at least a dozen lawmakers in the Senate and more than half of the party's House membership will seek to overturn the results of the 2020 election and disenfranchise the majority of US voters. A coup attempt in all but name, this is how democracy dies.
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