As John Eidson writes here: There are no “moderate” Democrats.  Desperate to keep the truth hidden from voters, the modern Democratic Party has turned against the constitution it swore to protect and defend, and sharply toward the scourge of socialism.

Steve McCann writes in American Thinker:

“Over the past thirty-years, a plurality of ill-educated and malleable citizens have allowed the self-serving, decadent and nescient ruling class, in alliance with the radical left, to establish near-permanent despotism in the United States.  They have deliberately and inexorably widened the gulf between the people and the government and effectively split the nation into two de facto countries that are at ideological and societal loggerheads.

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Read the full essay here.

JRL: Time for each of us to become “Vox Clamantis in Deserto,” a voice crying in the wilderness, as the Dartmouth College motto declares.  Reminiscent of Isaiah 40:3, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”