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GOP's Santorum: "... democracies are NOT the way to run a country" [1]

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Date: 2023-11-08  

Commenting on yesterday’s election results, former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Tuesday that Ohio’s results proved “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

As has become increasingly clear in recent years, the GOP no longer believes in the essential core of democracy — that decisions should be made by majority vote. Formerly pretending to be the conservative “small government” party supportive of individual freedom, in recent years the GOP has abandoned all pretense. We have watched with horror how Trump and his GOP enablers pushed us closer and closer to authoritarianism and outright fascism. But Trump is just the visible tip of the GOP “iceberg”.

Santorum makes it totally clear: Today the GOP’s position is “I know what’s better for you than you do … So what you think doesn’t really matter”.

Gerrymandering, GOP primary processes designed to “choose” the candidate a priori selected by the GOP National Committee, the shambles in Congress where “compromise” is viewed as a four letter word by the tiny radical right-wing minority in charge in the House, … All proves only one thing — They do not trust the unbiased vote, the essential democratic decision-making process.

Not for you and me, and not even within their own.

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