These are timeless tenets.
If you can’t grasp them, you aren’t qualified to be in Congress, period.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/rep-james-clyburn-compares-trumps-rise-to-hitler-greatest-threats-to-democracy-of-my-lifetime/
I agree with your point but would call out the fact that the Constitution and the bill of rights are no longer taught as the foundation of our Republic and as a guard to citizen rights.
That would apply to 99 percent of the Democrats in Congress today, and, to some Republicans