The Republican National Convention began today during the daytime hours, and Donald Trump and Mike Pence were renominated for President and Vice President of the United States.
Donald Trump avoided tradition and spoke for an hour, ranting and raving against his “enemies”, reminding those who know history of Adolf Hitler at his Nuremberg rallies.
We are witnessing the Republican Party officeholders swearing their loyalty to a man who has lied 20,000 times in office; has promoted racism, nativism, misogyny, white supremacy; has become a friend of authoritarians and alienated democratic nations; has undermined the judiciary, intelligence agencies, the foreign policy apparatus, and attacked the news media as “the enemy of the people”; has bullied and attacked all of his critics incessantly; has undermined our environment and civil liberties; has refused to take strong action against the CoronaVirus Pandemic; has shown no sense of compassion, empathy, decency or dignity in any form; and a legion of others sins and shortcomings that has never been matched by any previous President in more than two centuries of American history!
The party of such Presidential luminaries as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush has been shamed by Donald Trump!
The party of such Congressional luminaries as Charles Sumner, Robert LaFollette, Sr., George Norris, Arthur Vandenberg, and Everett Dirksen has been embarrassed by the weak kneed refusal of today’s Republican members of Congress to show some backbone to Donald Trump!
Face the facts: the Republican Party has become a cult, and is unlikely to come back into respectability, even after Donald Trump leaves the scene, as he has done so much damage and harm, that the Republican Party name may very well go into oblivion!
The Republican party as America once knew it died in 2016.
All of that is why it is imperative that we get rid of Trump in November!
Same way I felt –
The RNC Looked Like A Bad Parody Of SNL
http://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/opinions/us-elections-2020-rnc-snl-parody-ghitis/index.html
I tuned in a bit. Republicans told so many lies that MSNBC and CNN had to frequently stop coverage to fact check.
A Common Sense Caucus Emerges To Elect Joe Biden
At least some Republicans are willing to put policy differences aside to get rid of Trump.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/25/a-common-sense-caucus-emerges-to-elect-joe-biden/
Without a policy agenda, fear and racism is all the Republicans have got.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/25/republicans-focus-on-american-carnage-again/
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Sorry to hear that, Princess Leia, but nothing done by me has caused this!