Why Republicans Shamelessly Enable a Lawless and Racist President
Donald Trump has been the vehicle and the vessel through which Right Wing White Supremacists can accomplish their fascistic policy goals.
When I read the Twitter post last December, I knew it was finally time to respond. It wasn’t a pull-your-hair-out comment from a sycophantic right-wing Congressman or a Fox-brainwashed Trump supporter. It was a tweet from someone on the side of the good guys, the esteemed prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance, who posted during the Judiciary Committee’s Donald Trump Impeachment Hearings. As one “Republican” after another was maniacally denying obvious evidence of Donald Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors in the Ukraine scandal, Vance was compelled to comment:
“What is it that Republicans are willing to burn this country down for? Destroy the rule of law over? Is it for Trump? Is that the kind of future they want for our country?”
Of course, I felt Joyce’s pain. I’d been feeling that pain since the moment Trump uttered the words “American Carnage” at his inauguration almost three and a half years ago. Joyce’s tweet echoed the questions of countless Democratic legislators, media pundits, and many of my closest political compadres who mentally combust when they hear Republicans shamelessly and willfully normalize and enable the behavior of a man running roughshod over the rule of law and almost every American institution. The frustration and anger are reaching a crescendo during the Republican Convention as we observe the unfathomable fawning over the disaster of a human — let alone a President — that is Donald Trump.
“Why?” they ask. “Why do they do it?” Why are seemingly educated elected representatives and millions of American willing to throw the U.S. Constitution into the trash bin of history for a pathological lying, racist, authoritarian, incompetent, lawless President?
The TV pundits and the “objective” journalists in the print and internet press will cart out the usual suspects — ”tribalism” fostered by Fox News on the right and “liberal media” on the left (as if the former’s propaganda and the latter’s reporting/analysis were on the same playing field, but that’s…
