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    Jackie Calmes: Why does the Republican Party have a death wish?

    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2023 3 minutes
    Jim Jordan speaks during a hearing before House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis at Rayburn House Office Building June 23, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

    From top to bottom, at all levels of government, the Republican Party is on a tear to epitomize the timeless truth of 19th century Britain's Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

    Signs of backlash are building, however. Witness Democrats' of the Wisconsin Supreme Court last week, and its of Michigan's entire government last fall — victories in two heartland states that Democrats had long feared were slipping away from them. By public demand, the Republican-controlled Tennessee House has had to reseat the two Black Democratic representatives it expelled last

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