Well, you opened up this topic. So please enlighten me as to what is good and right about our Republic. She is quickly sinking into an abyss. I'm not talking about the past, I am talking about since Biden has taken office. Yes, I realize he's only been in for a very short period of time, but the destruction has already started.
You're absolutely right that we're in a tough spot right now. The Trump administration ended just as badly as it possibly could, and so much of it was self-inflicted. Too many voters viewed the choice as a lesser of two evils. I knew damn well that Trump's policies would have been better for the country, better for me and my family. But the man was unstable; I feared it, but I had no idea four months ago that he would take down his reputation and disgrace himself by fomenting (my carefully chosen and I believe accurate word) a physical assault by a thousand-strong mob on the building where an active, full Congress was in session to conduct Constitutionally-required business.
Yes, it was the most incredible Presidential screw-up in the history of this nation.
And the Dems are revved up to exploit it, and wave the Trump bloody shirt long and proudly. They are certainly keen to distract attention from their progressive, prosperity-killing green and woke agenda, and the weapon is tying Trump's supporters to Trump with a scarlet T.
They are suckering you all in. If you care about saving the agenda, them defuse the issue of Trump the Insurrectionist once and for all. Admit he phucked up, and censure the man. Yes, the Republicans need to acknowledge what the rest of us saw and heard - Trump transgressed all norms in his post-election obsession.
Here's Rich Lowery and Ramesh Ponnuru, in the 12/31 NR:
It had long been obvious that if Trump lost the election, his exit would be graceless.
. . .
Yet Trump hasn't even managed to clear the bar of realistic expectations for his post-election conduct. Even before the counting had ended, he declared himself the winner by a landslide. He spread rank disinformation on his Twitter account every day and pursued lawsuits that sought, based on the thinnest of justifications, to throw out millions of votes and invalidate state elections. He lobbied Reuublican officials to refuse to certify results and to award him the electors in states he lost, and failed only because the Republicans knew such acts would be a gross violation of the public trust at best and illegal at worst.
All in all, it's the worst thing he's done in his presidency and the worst exit of a defeated president in U.S. history, an effort that is not less infamous for being incompetent and risible.
That's how millions , I'll bet, of conservatives just like me think of Donald Trump right now. I don't hate the man, but I sure do hate letting him skate. Because the price of letting his skate - and by that I mean the opprobrium of his party - is to give the Dems the weapon they need to give Trump supporters the full cancel culture treatment, and ram through their progressive agenda.
Sometimes you have to do the tough thing if it is the right thing.
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
Trumpism can only survive with new branding.
