The Arizona Republican Party's Anti-Democracy Experiment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : After describing his work history in law enforcement, the private sector and Arizona politics, he then offered a different sort of qualification.
47% :It once would have been jarring to hear a candidate for state legislative office ignore the usual parochial issues -- property taxes, water access, state funding for universities -- and instead repudiate the very idea of democracy in America.
37% : But most of the G.O.P. candidates seemed to share Bliss's fears of majority rule as well as a desire to inflict harsh punishment on those they perceive as threats, deviants and un-American.
25% : "I had a weird dream last night about Joseph McCarthy," said one of the morning's featured speakers, Jim Arroyo, the head of Arizona's biggest chapter of the Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group made up largely of current and former members of the armed forces and law enforcement.

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