....Today, as MAGA Republicans attack the rule of law
AND PROMISE TO PROSECUTE THEIR POLITICAL ENEMIES IF THEY GET BACK INTO POWER,
it’s easy to forget that once upon a time, certain Republican politicians championed reason and compromise and took a stand against MAGAs’ predecessors. On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were undermining American democracy in a crusade against “communism.”......