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    The Comment That Reveals the Depths of the Republican Party’s Moral Collapse

    If even Rusty Bowers is willing to back Trump again, the outlook for popular democracy is very bleak.
    by David A. Graham Jun 22, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty

    Finding signs to worry about the future of American democracy is not hard, but few are quite so painful and acute as the cognitive dissonance displayed by Rusty Bowers this week.

    Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona State House, was the star witness during yesterday’s hearing of the U.S. House’s January 6 committee. Bowers calls himself a conservative Republican, and he has the record to back that claim up. Like most Republicans, he supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election, but when Trump and Rudy Giuliani tried to pressure him to assist in their scheme to overturn the results of the election in Arizona, where Joe Biden narrowly won, Bowers refused.

    He recalled telling Giuliani, “You are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when I swore to the Constitution

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