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This is the end result of the hyper partisan nature of the polity in the United States.
“Yet on Wednesday, a record number of Republicans sanctioned their party’s most popular figure — some of those lawmakers were old, some were young, some from heavily conservative districts, some from swing districts.
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is now being deluged with threats of a primary in his Illinois district from voters livid that he helped impeach Trump.
But the 41-year-old Air Force veteran said he felt at peace, having done the right thing.
Jaime Herrera Beutler, a 42-year-old recently re-elected for the sixth time in a conservative-leaning Washington State district, said she was choosing not to be afraid as she cast her vote against Trump.”
When doing the right thing garners threats against a person… Wrongdoing, even by “our team” is still wrongdoing and people should face the consequences of their actions regardless of which party they happen to belong to.
“People like Doug LaMalfa, who accused Democrats of trying to silence half the country by humiliating Trump: “You hate him,” he said.
Andy Biggs of Arizona referred to Democrats as “the beast” trying to devour Trump, harbouring an unsatiated craving to crush him through investigations, false allegations and impeachment.
“Your craving was never a Biden victory, nor even a Trump defeat. … You don’t merely seek victory — you seek obliteration of your nemesis,” he said.
A young pro-Trump congressman from Florida, Matt Gaetz, also derided Democrats for remaining silent when rioters burned city buildings and looted businesses.
Gaetz said Trump has weathered unprecedented hatred — “from big media, big tech and big egos.”
Everything except accepting responsibility. The American system is in serious trouble.
I’m wondering now. Will evidence of the “stop the count” protests be enough to cut through the partisan miasma in the United States?
Given that the Presidency of Mr.Trump was filled with episodes of ‘surely this (malfeasance ‘x’) will be enough to get him impeached/sacked/thrown in prison – with a null result each and every time gives me pause.
Just because it is ‘your guy’ in office should not turn off your intellectual and moral faculties, yet that seems the norm in the United States. Political parties should not behave like unaccountable cults.
Yet here we are in 2020 facing the real possibility that a sitting President will not concede his defeat in a democratic election. Boggles the mind.
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