As the GOP Drowns Deeper in Factional Racism & Sexism, America is Sinking, too

Thom Hartmann
5 min readJan 28, 2022

The Republican Party has lost all its legitimacy because, in the past few decades, it has become a white supremacist version of what Father of the Constitution James Madison called a “faction.”

Loosely, a “faction“ is a “special interest”group of people who are willing to damage the interests of other people just to gain their own benefit.

And, as Madison warned us, factions destroy democracies.

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Thom Hartmann

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