Republicans are trying to redefine who is an American

Republicans are trying to redefine who is an American
Four Republican state senators vote in favour of their party's plan to draw new voting districts after a federal judge ruled Georgia's electoral maps illegally diluted the power of black voters. (Image: AP)
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By Francis WilkinsonUsing specific dates to define entire eras is often a gimmick, a way of compressing wild and unwieldy life into a neatly artificial package. But some days or years, just massively overproduce, leaving behind a nation, or world, transformed. As a quote typically attributed to Vladimir Lenin has it, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”For the reactionaries who drive Republican politics in the US today, one year looms like Godzilla over a darkening conservative sk...

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