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Commentary: Marginalized people are not going away

Your continued defense of the indefensible — a racist, sexist, bigoted, incompetent, traitorous moron in the White House — will lead to the downfall of the Republican Party. The past two years have seen an amazing upsurge of women, immigrants, people of color, millennials and LGBTQ folks in Democratic politics. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

• Kansas House and Senate, where female Republican legislators are leaving in droves, changing their party affiliation to Democratic.

• And the 116th Congress, which has more than 100 women, including the first Muslim women, the first American Indian women and numerous people of color.