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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Atlantic: This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving [View all]
This Republican Party Is Not Worth SavingThe Atlantic, by Tom Nichols, 9/10/2020
...Indeed, the transformation of the GOP into a cult of personality is so complete that the Republicans didnt even bother presenting a platform at their own convention. Like a group of ciphers at a meeting of SPECTRE, they nodded at whatever Number One told them to do, each of them fearing an extended pinkie finger pressing the button that would electrocute them into political oblivion.
Some Republicans, even while they grant that Trump is a sociopath and an idiotand how unsettling that so many of them will stipulate to thatare willing to continue voting for Republican candidates because the GOP is nominally pro-life or because the administrations judicial appointments show that the people around the president are doing what conservatives should want done.
But Trumps few conservative achievements are meaningless when compared with his war on American democracy, a rampage that few Republicans have lifted a finger to stop. Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr have turned the constitutional order and the rule of law into a joke. If youre Roger Stone or Michael Flynn, the White House will arrange pardons, commutations, or even the outright betrayal of the Justice Departments own lawyers. Felony convictions are for the little people. The Constitution is just busywork for chumps.
GOP representatives in the peoples house sneer at concepts such as oversight and the separation of powers. Rather than demand accountability from the executive branch on COVID-19, on the Hatch Act, on the Postal Serviceon anything, reallythey either repose in sullen silence or they take up the lance for the president and overwhelm committee hearings with Trumpian word salad.
Some Republicans, even while they grant that Trump is a sociopath and an idiotand how unsettling that so many of them will stipulate to thatare willing to continue voting for Republican candidates because the GOP is nominally pro-life or because the administrations judicial appointments show that the people around the president are doing what conservatives should want done.
But Trumps few conservative achievements are meaningless when compared with his war on American democracy, a rampage that few Republicans have lifted a finger to stop. Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr have turned the constitutional order and the rule of law into a joke. If youre Roger Stone or Michael Flynn, the White House will arrange pardons, commutations, or even the outright betrayal of the Justice Departments own lawyers. Felony convictions are for the little people. The Constitution is just busywork for chumps.
GOP representatives in the peoples house sneer at concepts such as oversight and the separation of powers. Rather than demand accountability from the executive branch on COVID-19, on the Hatch Act, on the Postal Serviceon anything, reallythey either repose in sullen silence or they take up the lance for the president and overwhelm committee hearings with Trumpian word salad.
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today's R party needs cancelling. Into the circular file with all of em.
NRaleighLiberal
Sep 2020
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You can be sure Republicans will suddenly want ot have extreme oversight of Biden. Hypocrites. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2020
#9