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A presidential historian said Trump has a permanent black mark from two impeachments.
Many GOP senators voted for acquittal to avoid self-indictment, an expert said. You ve gotta remember you ve already won.
That s what GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said he told President Donald Trump s legal team amid the former commander-in-chief s second impeachment trial. Cruz was right. Trump was destined to be acquitted, and virtually everyone knew it before the trial even began.
As expected, the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection in spite of the glaring, damning evidence against him.
U.S.|Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy
In 1981, Louis Beam, then Grand Dragon of the Texas chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, inspecting armed members of the group’s security force.Credit.Ed Kolenovsky/Associated Press
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Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy
Forty years ago, Louis Beam had the idea of using the internet to drive a movement. Today, his vision is disturbingly prevalent.
In 1981, Louis Beam, then Grand Dragon of the Texas chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, inspecting armed members of the group’s security force.Credit.Ed Kolenovsky/Associated Press
"Once unique for its democracy, the United States is now unique for a homegrown American terrorist movement whose members believe they are pro-Trump patriots. Even if Trump is convicted of incitement against the U.S. government by the Senate, Americans will still have to combat the movement he inspired," writes the Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin.
Last week’s insurrection on Capitol Hill has opened the public’s eyes to the cracks in America’s democracy. In the last four years, the country has seen an acceleration of far-right extremism, spurred by a widespread misinformation campaign. While the temperature has been turned up in recent years, experts and scholars say that this movement toward violence and disruption has actually been mounting for quite some time.
Listen: Yale Philosophy Professor on the growth of fascism in the U.S.
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Jason Stanley is a Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is also the author of five books, including “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them”. He says that what the country saw unfold at the Capitol last week was an attack on democracy. Stanley adds that this degradation of democracy was a long time coming in the United States, intensified by the electoral failures of the Republican Party. According to Stanley, since Republican candidates have
The GOP s outrageous effort to overturn the election cements its status as a willing party to authoritarianism Sonam Sheth, John Haltiwanger A 2016 image shows Donald Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, sitting between Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. The Republican Party engaged in a brazen and unprecedented effort this year to ignore the will of the voters, overthrow a free and fair election, and install its preferred candidate in power. Had the party succeeded in its efforts, most recently via a longshot Texas Supreme Court case, that would have ended US democracy, said Jason Stanley, an expert in fascism.