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The portrait painted yesterday at the January 6 hearing by Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, wasnt simply of a criminal president, but of a seditious madman.
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This new account of what Trump did leading up to, on, and after January 6 was shocking, yet not surprising. His behavior did not amount to an abrupt about-face by an otherwise honorable man, but was the last link in an almost unfathomably long chain of eventsvicious, merciless words and unscrupulous, unethical acts that were said and done, many in public view, in ways that were impossible to deny. All of the signs of Trumps corruption and disordered personality were obvious for years.
Perhaps the case against Trump presented by the January 6 committee and previous Trump loyalistsby now so overwhelming as to be unquestionablewill cause some members of Congress, academics, and public intellectuals in the right-wing infrastructure to distance themselves from Trump. Of course, until now Trump has crossed no ethical line, has shattered no norm that caused them to say Enough! Instead weve heard whataboutism and strained-to-the-breaking-point excuses.
However this plays out, this needs to be said: For the past half-dozen years, the Republican Party and the American rightwith a very few honorable exceptions stood with Trump, defended him, and attacked his critics. Some went silent in the face of his indecency and lawlessness; many others gleefully promulgated his lies and conspiracy theories. Together they attempted to annihilate truth on his behalf, in his name, for their party, to seize and to hold power.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-withering-indictment-of-the-entire-gop/ar-AAYZFF2?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e8f11b6f7458466a9ce0b4e881e0efe5
The simple fact is, the GQP no longer wants there to be an America. They want a fascist theocracy.
BadGimp
(4,013 posts)"The simple fact is, the GOP no longer wants there to be an America. They want a fascist theocracy."
A better context IMO would be this:
If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.
― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic 2018
aggiesal
(8,909 posts)There, I fixed it.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)The seeds go back to the theft of Al Gore's presidency.
MILLIONS upon MILLIONS more people vote for Democratic representation in the US Congress than Republican. MILLIONS more every election. POLL after poll shows on most issues, Row/Guns/Healthcare the public is WITH the Democratic Party.
So the Democrats get MORE votes by a wide margin. Polls show the public SUPPORTS Democratic policies.
All that yet the Democrats hold on congress is tenuous at best and 66% of the Court is ruled by not only people that are not on the left, but on the extreme right. This activist right wing court will destroy every advance ever made in this nation. And there doesn't appear to be a damn thing the Democrats can do about it, but they do get more votes, so there is that.
stopdiggin
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Bucky
(53,986 posts)I can't begin to tell you how much that little anecdote delighted me. It bothers me when I hear the rumblings at the Secret Service agents involved are going to deny that particular event. I'll believe that retraction only when I see the agents actually dispute it.
But that said, Trump behaving like a toddler is documented many places elsewhere. And the loss of that as evidence in his corruption as a human being does not materially impede the very clear case that he attempted overthrow the duly elected government of the United States
usonian
(9,744 posts)Moscow Mitch in his human skin shell (pun intentional) and a poorly-done one at that, continues the destruction of "Truth, Justice and the American Way".
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)So maybe the clickbait headline: "A Withering Indictment of the Entire GOP," is a mite bit hyperbolic?
rubbersole
(6,684 posts)is very hyperbolic. Still a good read!😉
Jerry2144
(2,095 posts)As the food court at the shipping mail downtown