To protect them and the republic he loved from authoritarians, 78 years ago, my father left the young wife and two little daughters he loved with all his heart to risk his life half way around the world on tiny islands in the middle of the anything-but-pacific-ocean. The least I can do is speak out and vote to stop the authoritarians at home.
"Stating plainly that one of America’s two major parties, the party putatively devoted to advancing the ideas and ideals of conservatism, has now fallen into autocratic disrepute is unnerving for a magazine committed to being, in the words of our founding manifesto, 'of no party or clique.' Criticism of the Republican Party does not suggest an axiomatic endorsement of the Democratic Party, its leaders and policies," Jeffrey Goldberg writes. "Substantive, even caustic, critiques can of course be made up and down the Democratic line. But avoiding partisan entanglement does not mean that we must turn away from the obvious. The leaders of the Republican Party—the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly." - The Atlantic
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