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Former Republican Representative Doug Bereuter, who represented Lincoln and much of eastern Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives for 25 years, believes the country is in a dangerous place today.

“I’m more concerned about the health and status of American democracy than I’ve ever been in my life,” he says.

Former Republican Representative Doug Bereuter, shown in 2018, says he believes the nation is more fundamentally divided than it has been since the Civil War.

The nation is “more fundamentally divided” than it has been since Abraham Lincoln was first elected president at the onset of the Civil War, Bereuter said during a telephone interview after his performance as the grand marshal of Seward’s traditional Fourth of July parade.

Bereuter grew up in Utica in Seward County.

The Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by “a cadre of organized and violent insurgents” represented an attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the country’s history, Bereuter said.

“It was a shock to see this happen,” he said.

And now the Jan. 6 commission is doing the important job of exposing and detailing what happened, Bereuter said.

“I didn’t vote for (Donald) Trump in 2016” when he was elected president, Bereuter said, writing instead in the name of another Republican he wouldn’t identify.

“It’s important that Trump never comes near the White House again,” he said.

“Obviously he was not qualified to be president in terms of knowledge, temperament, judgment and lack of a moral compass,” Bereuter said.

Part of the problem that led to Trump’s Republican nomination is that “the way we nominate a presidential candidate is very flawed,” he said, “with a few states playing too big a role at the beginning of the process and a messy system of primaries and primaries.”

This jumbled system is “not a rational process for electing a presidential candidate (and represents) a fundamental flaw in our current political system.”

On another topic, the former 13-term congressman who served a single term in the Nebraska legislature prior to his election to the House in 1978 welcomed the recent and sudden elevation of three members of the legislature to seats in the five-member legislature. Nebraska Congressional Delegation.

Until now, very few state senators in the impartial legislature from Nebraska had moved to Washington.

“Serving in the Legislature provides a good foundation of experience to serve in Congress,” Bereuter said.

And while the legislature has recently become more partisan in its behavior, he said, it is still the least partisan state legislator in the country and a legislative body in which members are “more likely to form coalitions down the aisle.”

Preliminary Legislative Service also sends former senators to Congress with a wealth of “experience dealing with voters,” especially because a one-house body is “more accessible to voters.”

Former Nebraska state senators are “more likely to be results-oriented,” Bereuter said, “rather than partisan fighters.”

Congress, he said, “has unfortunately become very dysfunctional, increasingly filled with partisan, ideological fighters not focused on achieving legislature.

“I wouldn’t feel comfortable in the House today,” Bereuter said. “I could not tolerate extreme views that people are forced into by leadership or supporters.”

That’s not the only thing that has changed: “I never picked up the phone and called a single person for a campaign contribution,” Bereuter said.

“I was accessible and accountable to my constituents, and they trusted me to make the right decisions,” he said.

“I believe in representative democracy.”

Bereuter became a leading member of the House International Relations Committee while in Congress before resigning his seat in the House in 2004 to become president and CEO of the Asia Foundation.

Before stepping down, he was in line to become chairman of the committee in 2001, but Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois played his seniority card when he was not granted a waiver to continue as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and he was handed the chairmanship of International Relations.

“Most Asian governments would have been happy if Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska — a moderate, averse to controversy but schooled in the complexity of the region — had won,” the Wall Street Journal wrote at the time.

Bereuter visited Norfolk’s Mike Flood at a reception at St. John Lutheran Church while in Seward last week with the elected Republican congressman from the 1st district.

“He said he got my autograph when he came to my town hall meeting in Norfolk in grade eight,” Bereuter said.

Flood was in the midst of his third term in the legislature when he won a special election last month that pitted him against another Senator, Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln, for the right to run the remaining six months of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry to serve. term in the 1st District House seat.

Fortenberry resigned from the House when he was convicted on charges of lying to federal officials about an illegal foreign contribution to his 2016 reelection campaign.

Flood and Pansing Brooks, the Democratic nominee, will meet again in the November 8 general election in a contest to determine who will serve another two-year term starting in January.

Flood will be sworn in as a member of the House when it returns from a recess on Tuesday and he will join Sen. Deb Fischer and Rep. Adrian Smith join as a trio of former state senators serving on Nebraska’s congressional delegation.

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