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Ben Sasse's Republican Party is dead, even if he doesn't realize it.

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Damian Penny
Jan 18, 2021
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Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse has a piece in The Atlantic, called “QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within.” It’s pretty good. I agree with most of it.

Except for the title, which implies that the QAnon crowd hasn’t already eaten the Republican Party’s innards and now wears its skin as a suit.

January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully lo…

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