The Republican Party Is as Guilty as Trump
By Sonali Kolhatkar
But just two days later, the high-ranking senator stood by Trump as the president used the most vile language in reference to his impeachment, saying on Twitter, All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here a lynching. In response, Graham said to reporters, This is a lynching, in every sense. He did not say, This is a symbolic lynching, or In some sense, this is a lynching. (Even those terms would have been unacceptable given the history of quintessentially American racist terror the word references). But Graham said, in every sense, this was a lynching of President Trump, implying that even in literal terms, Trump was, in his view, being strung up on a tree by a racist mob and murdered by hanging. Just as other high-ranking Republicans have done in the past, Graham went even further than Trump himself to defend him and his conduct. Are not all of Trumps supporters as guilty of the presidents wrongdoing as he is?
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Trump got into office because Republicans allowed it, and he remains in office because Republicans continue to allow it. Until they openly declare war on his presidency, his ongoing assault on our democracy is just as much their fault as his. He remains in office at their whim. They are his enablers, the facilitators of his evil. The stink of Trumps racist and misogynist hate, abject dishonesty and flagrant impunity over laws and the U.S. Constitution ought to follow every Trump supporter inside or outside government for the rest of their lives. The only way to save their soul from the complicity that history books will surely capture is to disavow him, and to do so now when it matters.
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at140
(6,110 posts)That you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law? Whether you are a republican, Democrat, green, independent or something else should not matter.
I can't wait to see the trial in Senate, learn of proven crimes, and hopefully Trump will be found guilty and removed from office. Until then like any other American, I will give him the benefit of presumption of innocence.
debsy
(530 posts)The article uses the word "guilty" as a way of showing how the Republicans are as culpable for Trump's trashing of the Constitution and our democracy as he is.
at140
(6,110 posts)Will it be congress or SCOTUS?
We don't have the power on a political forum to decide.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Republicans or Russians to agree that he's guilty. It's plain as day that he's guilty.
You are oddly charitable toward that confessed criminal.
at140
(6,110 posts)But I don't get to decide who is a criminal and who is not. In our system it will be either SCOTUS or congress.
debsy
(530 posts)...which it is not currently since the Republicans have stacked the courts illegally and are not performing their sworn duties.