Stop shouting. I can barely hear myself think
People died,
were injured, and/or were terrorized by all that “talking” that Republicans are now calling
legitimate political discourse. Yelling “fire” in a movie theater is still
wrong and not protected by the first amendment, but something that can get you
killed is legitimate political discourse.
Can we now
use the word deplorable to describe those who defecated on the floors and walls
of the Capitol? For those who don’t like reading about sh*t in their morning
newspaper, how would you feel about walking into your office tomorrow and
finding sh*t on your desk next to your nameplate?
How does
“Hang Mike Pence” even begin to equate with legitimate political discourse like
“I don’t think I can vote for that?” Don’t even try to write it off by
declaring “Democrats say nasty things, too.” Trump blew that defense out of the
water by declaring there were good and bad people on both sides in Charlottesville.
Nazis? White supremacists? Good people?
How does “We
have to fight like hell” not be a call for violence when the resulting action
becomes a violent, no-holds-barred, inflict-as-much-pain-as-possible
insurrection?
Republican
leaders continue to defend the big lie. They think the only good Americans are
Republicans in good standing. What should we expect from a party always demanding
loyalty oaths?
Trump, who speaks for all Republicans—at least the good ones
(sorry Pence), call Democrats un-American traitors? No Republican said this was
wrong. Even “Some Democrats are un-American traitors, and some are not,” would
have been a step in the right direction.
Republicans
continue to defend the “big lie” because they are, and have been for some time,
big liars, tying themselves up in knots trying to explain their behavior. They stand by a man who says, “…if we don’t stand up and fight, we
will lose our country,” when this same man is literally destroying our country.
How deplorable must a Republican leader be to cower to this
immature coward? How deplorable must voters be to support these leaders?
Ask someone who says, “I’d rather die than get vaccinated.”
