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For tens of millions of people, democratic life has been absent for decades
Absolutely 100% this! I've been arguing this exact point numerous times, US democracy is dysfunctional, and it's only gotten worse for decades.
I’m glad it named presidents of all party. This idea that one party is good and one is bad is harmful.
Both parties and their leaders enabled this.
Instead of uniting their people in hope they look advantage of their tolerance and despair.
It's more like bad and way worse.
Although Schumer is making a good job of blurring the lines.
Rule 6, OP. This is a clearly marked opinion article.
Under "US News" making it also a News article.
Edit:
It could also be argued that the conclusion is a news item in itself. Which the article explains how is arrived at.
Edit 2: When you open the article from the link OP provided, you can see you are in the news section, as it is underlined in red.
Buddy, did you stop and think for a second that it being under the "US News" tab (under an "Opinion" subheader) in addition to the "Opinion" tab might be because it's an opinion about US news? Crazy concept, I know.
I know this isn't Wikipedia, but we sure have a term for whatever this bullshit "I just want something to be true" argumentation is over there.
Clearly the linked article is shown under news, you can see the news tab selected (underlined in red) when opening the article from the link:
Maybe it is you who should stop and think?
