"The GOP has become a danger to our democracy and values"
PLUS: Trump gets key endorsement as Haley exits race
This summer will mark six years since I left the Republican Party, of which I had been a member for 29 years. What I saw and felt then has been proven out by events, facts and the endurance of Donald Trump. Here is what I said on June 18, 2018:
In 2020, I registered as a Democrat.
I thought about my career in Republican politics, and the two presidential campaigns in which I played a role 16 and 20 years ago, while watching Donald Trump speak from Mar-a-Lago. What is it exactly? How should his bloviations and fantastical pronouncements be regarded? Received? The Donald has long been verbally incontinent, but he seems to be soaring towards new heights of delusion. Much of what he said was sheer madness — from his claims about the billions the Chinese sent him, the 28,000 Mexican soldiers who built the wall, the greatest economy ever, the perfect response to Covid, the imaginary conversations with imaginary Chinese leaders, and the list goes on.
His sentences aren’t quite gibberish in the same way that they aren’t quite comprehensible. He is a fraud and a gangster, a rapist and a liar. He is a seditionist who betrayed his oath and desecrated the blood sacrifices of one million Americans who offered the last full measure of devotion to the Union and its ideas and ideals. Like all thugs, he is small and weak inside, insecure and needy. He is an angry man who has filled himself with a lust for vengeance, retribution and power. He keeps saying what he will do, but many still cannot hear his song.
What Trump represents is something sinister. Because he controls one of America’s two political parties what is sinister has become normalized and accepted. It doesn’t make the extremists less sinister when their danger is ignored by oblivious media that can’t see the forest for the trees.
A great event is underway in America that will be recalled as the gateway to catastrophe should Donald Trump win.
What is most important is that he does not, but if he does, that he not have a US Senate or US House majority. The extremist movement is on the door step of power that will never be within their grasp again. They know this is it. This is Trump’s last stand. His coalition is as noxious and poisonous as anything that has ever been in American life. It ranges from religious hucksters and Nazis to cynics, criminals and chronic abusers. The movement teems — like all autocratic movements — with a cast of degenerates, weirdos, petty cons and reprobates of every stripe.
The American people are faced with an unhappy choice, but the choice is clear. Trump is an existential threat. This is so because of his words. This is so because of what he has said. This is so because of what he has done.
The choice is set. Get involved.
VIDEO COMMENTARY: Trump gets key endorsement as Haley exits race
With Nikki Haley dropping out of the race, Trump has already received key endorsements, including from Mitch McConnell. McConnell has clashed with Trump for years, and yet yesterday, he changed course and said that Trump "has earned the requisite support of Republican voters." Of course this should come as no surprise, and I explain what this means for a repeated match-up in November:
It’s not that Trump is the existential threat; it’s Trumpism that is the evil, demonic force. Trump has no ideology. He just craves love, obedience and loyalty. He is the epitome of a classless, and arrogant empty vessel.
Trump does not know how to govern, nor does he care to. He’s reckless, impulsive and clueless. It’s his corrupt and fanatical sycophants who we should fear.
McConnell, Miller, Bannon, The Federalist Society, Family Research Council, his “right-wing media ecosystem, and slew of constitutional lawyers, fanatical billionaires and think tanks that should be the focus of our vitriol and attention. Attack at the root, not the head.
Trump is nothing but a two-bit huckster that is more fiction than reality. And as the adage goes; “when the legend becomes fact, print to legend. And his right-wing media ecosystem is happy to oblige.
McConnell and the rest of the party are parasites plain and simple. To understand their pathology, I only needed to take one child psychology course in college to understand their feeble and obtuse minds.
McConnell will make a deal with the devil if it preserves his judicial accomplishments (he has).
Let’s face it; this country has been turning blue for decades, and the only way for the religious fanatics and tin-foil hat constituents to retain power, is by gaming the system good and hard. Mission accomplished!
McConnell has always known that the path to power isn’t the presidency, but the judicial branch which could easily rule by judicial fiat. And make no mistake, if Trump wins, our judiciary will be under the fascist and religious control for decades to come; regardless of which party is in power.
Let that sink in!…:)
This morning I sent an e mail to one of the Senators of my state — Thomas Tillis. He and his family are one of the mainstays of the Republican Party of North Carolina. I view him as a decent man.
My question to him was: What is your opinion of the Republican Party of North Carolina nominating a Holocaust Denier and Anti-Semite to run for Governor of this state?
I will be interested to hear his reply and will share it here.