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It makes me sad to see this and contemplate what a group of radical right wingers and their enablers in the state GOP have done to Oregon's political culture. Until this year anyone could just walk into the building at will. Now it's a fortress. https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1350514616686706689
I work across the street from this building. I moved to Oregon in 2000 and was amazed at how open and welcoming the state house was. The governor frequently walked across the street to eat at my college's excellent cafeteria with 1 or 2 security people with him.
Seriously, multiple times a week I would eat lunch sitting less than 20 feet away from the governor and everyone just acted like it was no big deal. That's now entirely inconceivable, and the fault lay with one party and one party only.
The last time a significant number of Americans in positions of power took the threat of "the far right" seriously was in the early 1960s, when far right groups had similarly toxic effects on the nation's political culture. This story opens "Danger on the Right" from 1964.
