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Let’s be clear: The Republican Party as a democratic institution is dead. What remains is an American fascist mob led by would be dictators. It must be utterly destroyed, though doing so won’t save the minds of the citizens it’s corrupted. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/4-stabbed-and-one-shot-as-trump-supporters-and-opponents-clash.html?referringSource=articleShare
Look. TBH I can understand the emotions of some Republicans who feel personally cheated by the election results, because that’s how I’ve felt since 2016. But. But. While I never accepted Trump as “my” President I accepted him as The President.
While I despised the electoral college rules that elected Trump President, I accepted that those are the rules. While I believed the people who voted him into office were fools and racists, I did not deny they existed and that he’d won “fair and square” in the game we played.
While I spent four years speaking out against each new Trump atrocity and decried the party and enablers who defended and supported him, I never considered him or them illegitimate in a legal sense. Vile, evil, despicable, oh yes, but legitimate under the Constitution.
My thoughts for fixing what I believe to be a badly broken democratic system are entirely reform oriented— new Amendments, if those were possible, an end to the Senate filibuster, the creation of new states, stronger Voting Rights laws. Fix the rules, don’t abandon them.
Even there, I knew my wishes were unlikely to be fulfilled, and while that depressed me, it didn’t prompt me to want the entire system overturned. I believed and believe change will come, that it’s inevitable, but that our Constitutional system grinds slowly, over generations.
So, yeah, while I understand and even empathize with the disappointment and anger of members of the Trumpist Party (let’s name it what it is, the Republican Party no longer exists) I remain first a believer in our democratic Constitutional system. These people do not.
As such, they must be expunged from the political system they seek to destroy. In the 1950s an hysterical Red Scare purged the Communist Party from American life as a threat to democracy. Whatever the morality of that effort, it was brutally effective.
Maybe it’s time for a Red Hat Purge.
