The question for the GOP: Trump or American democracy?

[Zorro]

Republicans have resorted to a variety of excuses and lies to avoid breaking with the defeated former president: He didn’t mean to incite the violent insurgents on Jan. 6, 2021. He eventually asked for them to go home. It wasn’t that violent.

Like the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen, none of these hold up to the least bit of scrutiny. (The defeated president refused to say anything to the insurgents for 187 minutes, then expressed love for them. The violent images refute the lie that it was a nonviolent protest.) Moreover, the former president insists on hugging the violent insurgents — and insists the Republican Party hug him.

At yet another unhinged rally appearance on Saturday, he declared, “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.” Even more incoherently, he insisted, “What that ‘unselect’ committee is doing and what the people are doing that are running those prisons, it’s a disgrace.”

This reaffirms a disturbing and incontrovertible fact that Republicans refuse to address: They stand by and may well nominate someone who sided and still sides with violent seditionists bent on overthrowing the duly elected government of the United States.

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The obvious GOP answer: Trump über alles.

[SamKnause]

1. Anyone asking this question is a total fucking idiot !!!

The republicans have answered this question loud and clear over and over and over.

What the fuck is wrong with the media in this country ???

Why didn't every paper is this country call for Trump to resign after his first impeachment ???

Why didn't they call for his resignation after her broke every law on the book repeatedly ???

Why didn't they call out McConnell and his disgusting actions aiding and abetting Trump at every turn ???

Those are the questions I want answered.

The republicans are the party of fascists.

They are anti democracy.

They hate this country and the majority of people in it !!!!

[LonePirate]

2. This question is rhetorical isn't it? And there's not much debate about the answer.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Trump. Next question?

I suggest reading Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

In an autocracy you don't have to take the time to study the issues and make your own decisions. You just mindlessly follow what the Leader tells you to do, no questions asked.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Conservatism is not a democratic ideology, and a lot of the conservatives...

in this country have gone full christofascist. Those conservatives who haven't fallen to the fascist Pig's movement are still people who believe in individual power and its maintenance over everything else.