With all this 'rigging,' what takes wind from Trump's sails?
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
Second in line to the presidency per the Constitution that he and his constituents reject, House Speaker Mike Johnson called last week’s election interference verdict “a shameful day in American history … a purely political exercise, not a legal one.”
Godly Mr. Johnson doesn’t seem stupid, so peddling those disingenuous assertions is MAGA-typical political hackery. Unless he was referring, retroactively, to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Every elected Republican said the same, most parroting Trump’s exact language (Huffington Post: tinyurl.com/shameless4u). They may as well be ventriloquist dummies with Trump’s hand up their access. Several Republican senators performatively pledged never again to cooperate with Democrats’ legislation. (As with the infrastructure act, they will, of course, take credit for whatever passes without them.) Acting to benefit the American people, or MAGAphilic vengeance: they made their choice.
Such orchestrated unanimity reveals their not-so-hidden agenda. Having successfully destroyed their voters’ confidence in elections, all that remained was doing the same to our Constitution. On the hypo-informed, hyper-Foxified, angry in the streets, it’s working.
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