The GOP Is Still Here and Trumpism Isn’t Gone
Big hypocrite energy is still in our Congress. Make it stop.
For months prior to 45’s departure, speculation ensued that as soon as disgraced former President Donald J. Trump was out of office, the Republicans would run from him like America did his bleach injection comments. In almost every off-the-record political piece written there was a consistent theme of some type of quiet objection from the GOP. Murmurs of their fears of retribution if they dare object to his willful ignorance, blatant racism, and overall authoritarian whims allowed for the creation of empathy for their cowardice.
We read comments like, “this isn’t who the Republican Party is — they are being held hostage by a madman.” We clung to this idea that the entirety of Trumpism would fade into the dark cold night as soon as his exit was finally solidified. Americans told themselves this tall tale because the alternative was too much to bear. The alternative being that Trump is the GOP and the GOP is Trump. And the truth is that the GOP isn’t unwilling participants in the destruction of our democracy but instead they are willing accomplices.
During Trump’s four-year reign of terror, the GOP backed him 100%. They made legions of excuses about his abusive rhetoric and childish tantrums. When the insurrectionist melee exploded on January 6, we thought collectively: “This will be the final straw.” The GOP will walk away from their power-hungry and depraved leader whose hate speech left our Capitol building riddled with bullets, broken glass, and five lives lost. We were wrong. Hours following the attack on the Capitol, six senators returned to the floor and continued with their fruitless pursuit to stop the certification of the election and voted to overturn the will of the people with 121 House Republican members following suit.
Since that horrific day in our nation’s capital, we have learned more about Republican members giving reconnaissance tours to the terrorists the day before and now we have QAnon, gun-toting members calling for the execution of Democrats on their social media platforms. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the embodiment of the new GOP which is in fact a domestic terrorist organization. In 2018 and 2019 videos and posts are being unearthed of the…
