"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon." -- Thomas Paine
August, 2023, it was. In Utah. The state Republican party voted to forego a presidential primary and just name their presidential candidate without letting their voters decide.
The last vestige of thinking on that front. The party Utah Republican Party members yielded it up. No longer did they need to concert their energy thinking about who their party nominee would be; the party leadership would do it for them.
One can look around the country, wondering if this has ever been done before. Has a party machine in any other state -- Republican or Democrat -- ever taken the right to vote in a presidential primary away from the public?
Perhaps so. And, if it ever has happened before, it does not make it any righter, or nicer. Stealing democracy is still wrong.
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