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Republicans are celebrating! In less than two months they will hold a majority in the US Senate, and a majority in the House of Representatives.

Six years into the tenure of a President they openly revile, they will be able to express a united front to their constituents.

Voters turned out in historically low numbers and corporations and wealthy Americans poured in historically high amounts of dollars to yield these results.

How much of a crisis of democracy does this represent?

GUEST: Rosa Clemente, independent journalist and hip-hop activist and scholar, and a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State Los Angeles. She was Cynthia McKinney’s vice presidential running mate in 2008 for the Green Party Presidential