"Apparently, insurrection is not disqualifying for GOP voters.
This would have alarmed the Founders, of course, but it has also taken contemporaries by surprise."
~ Charlie Sykes
And this is the problem in a nutshell, the problem that must be faced: Republicans quite simply do not believe that insurrection is disqualifying for holding office, of that the Constitution's bar against insurrectionists seeking office counts.
#Republicans #insurrection #Constitution
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/is-disqualifying-trump-anti-democratic
William Lindsey :toad: /
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