There are politicians running for office this November who still wallow, enthusiastically, in the Big Lie and defend the violent insurrectionists.
The MAGA fascist Trumputin personality cult is now firmly in control of what used to be a responsible Republican Party. Kevin McCarthy, the prospective speaker of the House should the MAGA fascists gain control, has stated that he will abandon Ukraine and thereby yield Europe to Putin’s Russia. Perhaps he will do this right after he pushes through a nationwide ban on all abortion, no exceptions.
The MAGA Trumputin fascists shout about crime but refuse to address the flood of guns that can make all crime that much more devastating while offering no real solution. The MAGA fascists shout about the inflation that is a global problem, while voting against the Biden legislation that addresses it. The MAGA fascists shout about the immigration issue at the southern border while discounting the fact that undocumented immigration at the southern border was at a 50-year low (under President Obama) until the Trumputin Wall nonsense became a talking point while ignoring the real causes and solutions.
A vote for any so-called Republican, at any level endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene and her antisemitic and racist Q-Anon nonsense.
A vote for any so-called Republican, at any level endorses the ongoing Trumputin coup and the violent insurrection that cost the lives of law enforcement. You can’t say that you are pro-police if you supported the coup attempt.
A vote for any so-called Republican, at any level endorses the Big Lie at the base of the Trumputin coup attempt and the resulting violent insurrection.
For the health of our democracy, this band of unrepentant coup plotters and willing participants in insurrection must be defeated in November in order to cleanse the Republican Party of the pollution of the MAGA fascist Trumputin personality cult.
Vigorous policy debate is necessary for our system to function. There is no room for a fascist cult of personality that traffics in hate and delusion.
Eric Cashdan
Sands Point
