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The Republican party is united behind Trump’s attack on democracy Thomas Zimmer

The January 6 hearings have been more impressive and more forceful than anyone could have expected – definitely worthy of primetime attention. Yet the hearings have been focused on Donald Trump and the past, rather than the continuing assault on the democratic system that the Republican party has fully embraced.

The committee’s core task is to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and what led to it, of course. But everyone who believes in democracy needs to

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