In farewell speech, Rep. Adam Kinzinger warns GOP ‘has embraced lies and deceit’

In his farewell to Congress, Rep. Adam Kinzinger said both Republicans and Democrats lack “spines to stand up and put country over party.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — Ringing alarm bells in his last speech on the House floor, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who early on warned about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories that started during the Trump presidency and led to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said Thursday he feared U.S. democracy “will fall into the ash heap of history.”

“Our democracy,” said Kinzinger, “is not functioning.”