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The current version of the Republican Party needs enemies to focus its base on in order to draw attention away from what it really stands for now. The actions of GOP state party officials clearly demonstrate their belief that voter fraud occurred during the 2020 election, but what they call voter fraud, most Americans call democracy. There is little doubt that Trump and his allies meant that African Americans voting in itself was an example of voter fraud in Philadelphia and other areas where there exist large numbers of minority citizens.
A common target of their wrath is an entity known as Antifa. There is some truth in their claims, that some persons who aligned themselves with what is more of a movement than an organization, have engaged in vandalism and assaults on police officers. Those actions of course are crimes. What they don't want most Americans to realize, however, is that they are trying to impose Jim Crow-style discrimination on people of color.
Antifa, they say, is the enemy of patriots. If they are referring to the "patriots" who stormed the Capitol with the intention of overturning the 2020 election, and installing the loser as, effectively, an unelected dictator, then to those self-described patriots, Antifa is an enemy. Those "patriots" also demonstrated that vandalism and assaulting police officers is not exclusive to Antifa. The Antifa movement, however, does have deep roots in history. After all, couldn't members of the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in the 1940s be referred to as being an anti-fascist movement? If Antifa is the enemy of the current GOP, then who are its allies? —Bill M., Pennsylvania
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When we talk about government of the people, by the people, and for the people, whom are we talking about? Who are the people? There's a tendency in modern politics, across the spectrum, to define one's own supporters as the "true" American people, who are going to "take back" America. It may be a politically effective ploy, but ultimately, it's not beneficial. That language pits Americans against each other and the hostility is rising in numerous ways—increased extremism, acts of violence, and a growing anti-democracy movement among our own lawmakers. There were further reminders of these troubling trends this week. The truth is, the people is all of us. But until we the people fully accept that fact, we will continue to be vulnerable to opportunists who exploit our differences in pursuit of power. —Evan McMullin
The ODNI report on foreign threats to the 2020 elections shows a serious, ongoing threat to U.S. national security that we really aren't talking about: the American proxies and dupes doing the Kremlin's dirty work against America. 
