Forget "Weird." Let's Talk "Dangerous." (Part 2)

Tim Walz got traction by calling Republicans "weird." But leaving it at "weird" lets Donald Trump off the hook. He’s much worse than weird.

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• Forget “Weird.” Let’s Talk “Dangerous.” (Part 1)

Election Day is fast approaching, and the potential danger of another Trump term is looming over us.

As I’ve previously stated, the word “weird” is insufficient to describe what lurks beneath the surface of a second term presidency of Donald Trump. A good portion of the danger of another term of Trump is the fact that the Republican Party as we once knew it no longer exists. It is now the party of Trump. The few Republicans who have tiptoed around the edges of speaking out against Trump and his irrational and dangerous approach to governance have done so in the meekest of ways.

That timidity is informed in part by a complete lack of courage on the part of Republicans. But it’s also influenced by the very real threats from Trump’s most devoted and violent cultists. Many of those Congressional Republicans who won’t stick their heads out of the foxhole to save our democracy are the same people who have seen first hand the c…