You may have noticed that I’ve written virtually nothing about Trump’s refusal to concede the election or any of his legal team’s ridiculous pratfalls, or anyone who has humored or advanced their ludicrous conspiracy theories. There are many reasons for this.
First, I’ve been tasked with challenging writing assignments at Washington Monthly and that’s taken a lot of my time. Second, I knew that Trump would eventually be slapped down by the Supreme Court and that these shenanigans were no threat to Biden’s election. Third, I find the whole topic depressing most of the time, and when it’s amusing it’s still too serious for jokes. Finally, the whole effort was so obviously lacking even facial merit that I saw no need to engage their arguments.
Then there’s the fact that the media has done a great job of not only detailing what’s been going on but also calling it what it is: open sedition.
The number of Republican congressmen and attorneys general who joined the Texas suit is really disturbing. I think I’d have more to say about this right now if I were surprised. But I’ve been telling you since the first day that Booman Tribune was launched in early 2005 that the conservative movement and the Republican Party are worse that you can possibly imagine.
The idea that they’d ask legislatures to ignore the people’s vote and crown Donald Trump as a king isn’t inconsistent with my view of their belief system. It’s less a deterioration in the party’s values than a full fruition of them.
So much of what I’ve written over the years has been colored by estimation of the authoritarian and anti-Democratic nature of conservatives. Even much of my impatience with progressives is really mostly about my perception that they nitpick about luxuries while we’re under a full bombardment of evil. It’s like talking about upgrading the draperies when someone has broken into the house and set it on fire.
I’m always focused on the enemy first, and hoping to buy some brief intervals where we can accomplish something rather than play pure defense 100 percent of the time.
It’s ironic that we’re now seeing everyone talk this way, including the mainstream media, and I have very little to add. It’s mostly because I’ve said it all before.
Religion and politics have always intermingled.
Nah. Republicans are way too shameless, not to say unself-aware.
I agree. Fight them on moral ground and call out their hypocrisy on every occasion.
I want him to win. That’s all.
I remember reading something by Noam Chomsky before the 2016 campaign in which he said that the most dangerous group in the world is the Republican Party. I think events have borne that out. All those former or lapsed Republicans who’ve turned against Trump need to examine their part in creating this monster, instead of pretending that it all happened with Trump.
If anything good has come out of these last four years, it’s the unmasking of the Republicans as the bunch of power mad 5th column that they are. Even those who don’t sign on to efforts to undermine the election refuse to stand against it. In a way I feel sorry for them because an honest response would essentially put an end to their political careers but what does one expect when they lie down with dogs?
I. OTOH, have nothing, absolutely nothing good to say about that seditious group of assholes and at the moment I absolutely deny anything they ever did in service to mankind. Chomsky was right.
Those 126 congressmen, Trump and friends are engaging in what can be called sedition. They may not succeed this time ( at least we hope not), but there is no guarantee they will never succeed. Our constitution has an obvious flaw or two like the electoral college and the senate. And there is virtually no way to fix it. Trump and friends are still arguing the election was a fraud and with no evidence. They will do so in the future and one year they may succeed and democracy will no longer exist on this earth.
The “easiest” ways to fix it are to: abolish the Senate, and abolish the Electoral College.
The most likely ways to fix it are to: add about 500 House Seats, and keep the Senate at 2 Per state, and then add additional Senators as proportional to the State population. This would also change the Electoral College map as it would be much more proportional to population than it currently is, since there are only 2 EC votes per state for the Senators of each state…more Senators in more populous states, more EC votes for more populous states.
Of course, the Republican Party will never allow that, and the government itself would probably not allow it since it would dilute their own personal power even though they’d be giving the People more power.
Eliminate the senate and it all goes away.
But then, Mitch McConnell might have to get a job and there aren’t many who would hire such a complete and total failturtle!