It's hard to tell what the Republican Party stands for any more.
Other than coming to power By Any Means Necessary, that is.
The party that impeached a president over a blow job wasn't in the least bothered by a president who attempted to overthrow the government by force. And they're just fine with a senate candidate who fathered and abandoned a bunch of children with various girlfriends, and paid for at least one abortion, which I used to think was the GOP's biggest no-no.
Paying for things, that is.
Every time there's a mass shooting somewhere, the GOP wails that it's too soon to talk about even the slightest, weakest gun control legislation. Turns out that the time to talk about crime is in the three months before a general election, during commercial breaks when you're trying to watch Jeopardy! or Dancing with the Stars.
There is a long list of things that Republicans are against, of course. They hate transgender children, gays, lesbians, admitting that centuries of oppression against peoples of color has any lasting effect, cities, public schools, protecting any corner of the environment that isn't a golf course, science, health care, other people's religion or lack thereof, and on and on.
And now they are against counting the votes of people who manage to vote for Democrats in spite of Republicans' decades-long efforts to prevent them from voting in the first place.
Sure, there are still some Republicans who still believe in democracy. But their days are numbered thanks to all the RINO hunters in their ruby-red districts who don't.
Here in Wisconsin, the voting laws and the Elections Commission were created by the Republican legislature and signed into effect by Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2015. Republicans had no complaints when Donald Berzelius Trump won the state the next year, or in the off-year elections of 2017, 2018, and 2019. (Okay, they weren't happy with Democrat Tony Evers winning the governorship, but they used their majority in the legislature to strip the governorship of most of its powers before he could take office.)
When the majority of Wisconsin voters voted for Joe Biden, suddenly Republicans wanted to overrule the voice of the people and declare Trump the winner anyway. Governor Evers's vetoes have been the only thing stopping them from disbanding the bipartisan Elections Commission and replacing it with one that will have a Republican majority as long as Republicans remain in charge of the redistricting process. And being in charge of the redistricting process enables them to remain in charge of the redistricting process forever.
Republican billionaires are outspending Democrats and liberal interest groups in advertising aimed at replacing Governor Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul with conspiracy-mongering election deniers, and in achieving a veto-proof GOP majority in the legislature. (Judging from the disappearance of the TV ads against transgender Democrat Jessica Katzenmeyer running for State Senate, they may believe that their goal has been met; 2022 redistricting made the 15th district more heavily Republican anyway.)
Elsewhere in the country, the arsonists are already in charge of the fire department. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent his Gestapo The Vote squad into the inner cities to arrest felons — almost all of them Black by some strange coincidence — who had served their time and mistakenly thought they had regained the voting rights of ordinary citizens. Whether he'll dump them back into prison or fly them to Martha's Vineyard remains to be seen.
Whether he'll get around to rounding up similar felons in Republican districts also remains to be seen. I'm sure there are plenty of right-wingers on the registered sexual offender list in the Florida panhandle, and some of them tried to vote in 2020, but don't hold your breath waiting for the DeSantis goons showing up at their mobile homes.
In all, 291 Republican candidates for Congress, governorships, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and other constitutional offices around the country continue to cast aspersions against the will of the people in the 2020 elections.
Some may even have been supported by idiot Democrats who thought they'd be easier to beat in the fall. But over half of them are expected to win election to office.
There are far too many win-at-any-cost right-wing stooges who would vote for Elagabalus if he ran as a Republican.
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