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Originally Posted by mpholland
As bad as the GOP may be, they are still necessary for an adversarial two party system. Giving a single party absolute national power would lead to something much worse than the GOP is now, I don't care what name you give it.
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In a purely academic sense divorced from current reality I would agree.
However, the real world situation is that the Republican Party has not been a responsible political party for over a decade, and their behavior has only gotten worse as their bad behavior has been rewarded.
The GOP is now an existential threat to democracy.