It was good enough for British loyalists
“By what right does a judge put a former president in prison?” asks former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Why … why, that judge was appointed! Donald Trump appointed nearly twice as many judges in four years as Barack Obama did in eight, but who’s counting? Newt’s on a roll.
Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, was born in Columbia. And we know what Team Trump thinks of immigrants and immigrant judges, even if they’re not immigrants. Now this Columbian-born, immigrant judge appointed by that notorious yankee state of New York may send Trump to jail for contempt of court. The effrontery!
“By what right?” asks Gingrich of Georgia does a judge dare apply the same law made for commoners to the MAGA king?
Jon Stewart recently suggested that if Republicans are going to insist on such “monarchy shit” they should at least signify by wearing red coats.
Gingrich is hardly alone in assailing the heirs of Blackstone and equal justice. Trump and leading Republicans are refusing to commit to accepting November’s election results … again (Washington Post):
The question has become something of a litmus test, particularly among the long list of possible running mates for Trump, whose relationship with his first vice president, Mike Pence, ruptured because Pence resisted Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election.
In a vivid recent example, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was pressed at least six times in a TV interview Sunday on whether he would accept this November’s results. He repeatedly declined to do so, only saying he was looking forward to Trump being president again.
He continued to evade the question even as the interviewer, NBC News’s Kristen Welker, reminded him that a “hallmark of our democracy is that both candidates agree to a peaceful transfer of power.”
But that was before the election of Barack Obama. Trump, the Post reports, has repeatedly suggested that political violence could again ensue if he does not win in November. Followers should follow their hearts, Trump recommended, not the vote counts, to decide whether to challenge election results. In Georgia, Republicans just made that easier than ever.
The Post again:
The refusal to commit to accept elections results is “deeply concerning,”said Steven Levitsky, a government professor at Harvard University who studies democracy around the world. “Accepting the results of elections is in effect the cardinal rule of democracy. It is the first rule of democratic politics. If a major party is not willing to accept defeat in elections, democracy cannot be stable.”
Yes, but democracy means your side can lose, so democracy is now a bad word among Republicans. Elections are illegitimate if their presidential candidates lose, even if Republicans on the same ballots win. Washington State Republicans recently called on their members to stop using the word democracy and to replace it at every opportunity with some version of republic:
“We are devolving into a democracy, because congressmen and senators are elected by the same pool,” was how one GOP delegate put it to the convention. “We do not want to be a democracy.”
Washington Republicans started a trend, it seems. Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman (R) just raised republic in non sequitur remarks on the House floor. He’s implying something he doesn’t have the guts to speak plainly.
Let’s review:
Turn in your flags.
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