This Post piece demonstrates the abject cowardice of Republicans in Congress. The Post reached out to every Republican member of Congress and asked them if the sky was blue Biden won the election. Of the 249 member of the House and Senate, only 25 will admit on record that Trump has lost the election and Biden will be sworn in on January 20th. What is arguably more significant is that only 2 members, the irredeemably awful Paul Gosar and Mo Brooks who ran against no one, said that Trump has won despite all evidence to the contrary. Instead, 221 members of Congress ducked the question.
As Trump and his "legal" team continue their assault on American democracy, the vast majority of Republican "lawmakers" sit in petrified silence of a man who is just itching to cut them off at the knees. This slavish devotion to one of the worst people in American history is nothing less than cowardice.
It is, of course, cynically prudent. Trump's hold on the imaginations of his followers is profound. I certainly hope his assaults on the legitimacy of elections will depress turnout among Cult 45 in the Georgia runoff election, but I have my doubts. For someone like Gosar or Brooks, the only real challenge to their hold on their seats is a primary from someone even more irreconcilably wretched.
At this point, it's tough to say where the GOP is heading. It is certain that they have abandoned their fealty to American democracy in favor of either crazy conspiracy theories or simply the conviction that the majority of Americans who live in urban and suburban communities are not "real Americans." Their options are to reject democracy or embrace a herrenvolk democracy limited to White Christians. The other option is that they are simply a zombie political movement, dead on its feet but still shambling forward under inertia. Able to destroy but unable to create, they are the dead hand of the past on the tiller of the ship of state.
Screw all of them.
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