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    The GOP Has No Standards Now

    Shredding the Constitution should disqualify anyone applying for a job protecting the Constitution.
    by John Dickerson Feb 09, 2022 6 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    Updated at 10:49 a.m. ET on February 10, 2022.

    There is no formal application for the presidency. If there were, it might contain a few prescreening questions to bounce the obviously unqualified. Is the applicant 35 years of age or older? Were they born in the United States? Have they ever tried to overthrow a lawful presidential election? If a candidate said no to the first two questions or yes to the third, their application would not proceed to the bin for further review. HR would send a note thanking them for their interest.

    The first two questions are constitutional requirements. The third is not a constitutional requirement but an implicit one: Shredding the Constitution should disqualify anyone applying for a job protecting the Constitution. School-bus operators are not picked from a pool of drivers with a history of high-speed, child-imperiling joyrides. Museum guards are not selected from the ranks of art thieves.

    This is obvious. But not to the Republican Party. The 2024 GOP presidential nominee will either , who tried to

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