These Republican senators have broken away from Trump after controversial Ukraine post

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50. Perhaps.

But a democracy doesn't survive on people being persuaded by others' suspicions. We can't forget that the Right knows this and that suspicion is their own MO. Unpacking the truth of what you suspect will likely come out too late to undo the damage that purveyors of lies have already done to the American people.

What we can do is stay vigilant for the facts, warn, and act in ways that democratic structures allow when they function at their best. So far it's got Americans playing whack-a-mole while good government is strangled and good, innocent humans die for no reason but others' accumulation of money and power. Mammon's power and money slink onward. At some point, surviving Americans will have to kill it dead and bury it.