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Margie Swoboda
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Republican calls for unity after the assassination attempt were short-lived, replaced by increasing vitriol against President Biden and Vice President -- and Presidential candidate -- Kamala Harris.
Biden served our country well for 50 years. True to character, he sacrificed his personal ambitions for the good of the country by ending his bid for reelection. In return, the Republican ticket doubled down on the cruel and boorish attacks, reinforcing concerns about their own campaign. (Americans have long claimed that both Biden and Trump were too old and should step aside.)
It didn't take long for Republicans to call Harris the "DEI candidate," attributing her achievements to preferential treatment owing to race and gender. Republican elected officials piled on with racist and sexist attacks against Harris, leading party leaders to remind them to behave.
Republicans seem to believe that only white men have earned their success and deserve power. Successful women and people of color, MAGA argues, have been given opportunities they "don't deserve" and "didn't earn." Hence the attempts to discredit Harris.
Such Republican tactics are nothing new. Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy maliciously and falsely accused prominent citizens of being Communists. After McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of being soft on communism, the Army hired attorney Joseph Welch to defend them. When McCarthy attacked Welch's law associate as a communist, Welch retorted: "Have you no sense of decency?"
In their unrelenting racist and misogynistic attacks, today's Republicans clearly show us that they have no sense of decency.