The Republican Party is is the process of staging a coup against representative democracy in America. It may or may not succeed, but it is at the very least the most momentous event in American history since South Carolina voted to secede from the Union in 1860. People who see it as a “spat” between the two major parties are living in a dream world, as most people were in 1860 — until they heard the sound of the guns.

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