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Charles M. Blow: Republicans refused to defend democracy from a mob that came to upend it

Republicans want to take ‘their’ country back, back to a time when white people had complete control of the halls of power.

(Jason Andrew | The New York Times) A pro-Trump mob storms the Capitol building in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. "Almost five months later, the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, fought like hell to block a bipartisan independent commission to investigate what happened during that insurrection and what caused it," writes New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. "It is yet another clear indication to me that America wasn’t ceasing to be a country, it was ceasing to be a democracy."