Republicans are plotting to destroy democracy from within
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Opportunism and cowardice has more than sufficed to make Republicans espouse a noxious falsehood as an axiomatic truth. Police push back at pro-Trump mob after they stormed the Capitol building on 6 January. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images – By Lawrence Douglas Last modified …