It is hard to say anything nice about the republican party in A.D. 2020. If it ever had a soul, most of it was in hock to Ronald Reagan and his "government is the enemy" message. The little that remained has now been sold to Donald tRump, a mountebank who makes Reagan look like a statesman.
The election has been over for a week. The networks called it for Joe Biden on Saturday. Yet many elected Republican officials and a large percentage of party members refuse to believe the results. Instead, there is a barrage of claims of a stolen election and encouragement to doubt the most fundamental ritual in a democracy, a free and fair election. The stupidity of Republican claims is self evident. If democrats were fixing the elections in 50 states, how did they allow Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham to be elected, along with many others GOP candidates?
Voters rebuked tRump and his policies (what policies?) after 4 nightmarish years. However, the same voters seem willing to believe the party which enabled tRump is not responsible for him and so re- elected many of the sycophantic bootlickers who got us into this mess. Now, instead of being able to enact their programs and let the voters judge their efficacy, congressional Democrats will face a salted earth opposition by Republicans who will decry "gridlock". This will lead to a GOP win in the House in 2022 and Biden's opportunity to govern will have come to naught. This is the Republican agenda and despite their president's bungling of the pandemic and the needless loss of more than 100,000 lives and counting, it looks like the party of Lincoln will get away with killing what is left of our democracy. There is no hell hot enough...
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