A Withering Indictment of the Entire GOP

[Ohio Joe]

The portrait painted yesterday at the January 6 hearing by Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, wasn’t 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 events—vicious, 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 Trump’s corruption and disordered personality were obvious for years.

Perhaps the case against Trump presented by the January 6 committee and previous Trump loyalists—by now so overwhelming as to be unquestionable—will 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 we’ve 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 right—with 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]

1. This acessment is not accurate...

This one:
"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]

6. Christofascist Theocracy ...

There, I fixed it.

[kwolf68]

8. That is POINT on

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]

2. really can't disagree with a single word presented ... -(nt)-

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[Bucky]

3. If the story about Trump's SUV tantrum doesn't pan out, I'll lose a little joy in my life

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]

4. So, TFG goes and someone takes his place. Meanwhile,

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. Cassidy Hutchinson is a member of the GOP. As is Liz Cheney.

So maybe the clickbait headline: "A Withering Indictment of the Entire GOP," is a mite bit hyperbolic?

[rubbersole]

7. "Everything Trump Touches Dies"

is very hyperbolic. Still a good read!😉

[Jerry2144]

9. This current SCOTUS is as legitimate a court on the Constitution

As the food court at the shipping mail downtown