What Sen. Paul Boyer's exodus says about Republicans ... and voters in 2022

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Sen. Paul Boyer is calling it quits. It’s a disturbing reminder of how ugly Arizona politics have become and a glimpse that the worst is perhaps yet to come.

Boyer’s decision against seeking re-election next year wasn’t entirely a surprise to anyone paying attention. But it still elicited lamentations amid the state’s political turmoil.

Boyer was the only Republican in the state Senate who stood up to the shenanigans of his colleagues, who wanted to jail Maricopa County board of supervisors over the recount of the 2020 presidential ballots.

Boyer told journalists that his heart isn’t in it any longer and that the Legislature “feels more toxic than it had ever been.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-paul-boyers-exodus-says-140116427.html

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1. 'Boyer was the only Republican in the state Senate who stood up to the shenanigans of his colleagues

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2. 'the worst is perhaps yet to come'

I am rereading, hopefully cover to cover, Prof. Crane Brinton's classic The Anatomy of Revolution, a book read in many history and political science classes since its publication in the 1930s. We saw the Jan 6 insurrection, and I've compared it many times on DU to the clearest and classic insurrection, November 1917, but we must recognize that as part and parcel of WWI and the Russian Revolution. So are we in the midst of a revolution now? Everything is in an uproar politically. Are we about to enter a Reign of Terror? What would that look like in the modern world? I'm only beginning to ponder such questions as I've only realized the full structure of the events in this post over the last few days. But we really must consider if something bigger is happening while our government basks in normalcy and hasn't a clue what is happening outside civilization.