All Republicans must go
Likely voters say 58 - 38% that the country is worse off than it was in 2016
Who would do a better job on: Racial inequality, Biden 58 - Trump 36%; The response to the coronavirus, Biden 56 - Trump 40%; Health care, Biden 55 - Trump 41%; Handling a crisis, Biden 53 - Trump 43%; The economy, Biden 48 - Trump 48. Fifty percent of likely voters say having Donald Trump as president of the United States makes them feel less safe, while 35 percent say it makes them feel more safe President Trump job approval rating is 43%; disapproval 54%
Biden garners more Republican endorsements, this time from ex-governors
Joe Biden is the only one trying to act like a president
Joe Biden blames Trump for why your kids can’t go to school
I’m Doomsday Prepping for the End of Democracy
It’s not the lies themselves that worry me most, but the fact that millions of people might accept them. Can America endure such mendacity? When you don’t have social trust, when you don’t have a shared view of reality, do you even have a country?
It’s not just Trump. All Republicans must go.
Beyond expressions of overt racism and ongoing support for totems of the Confederacy, denial of systemic racism is now the default setting for virtually all Republicans, including the president, attorney general and members of Congress.
Statistical data (not only in the criminal justice system), the series of unjustified police killings of African Americans, the disproportionate number of Black people afflicted by covid-19, and nearly every other social or economic indicator (from life span to wealth) reveal that the tentacles of racism still have a stranglehold on the country.
The notion that everything is fine and that no institutional racism exists is the defense mechanism of a party invested in white supremacy. A party that willfully denies the painful reality of endemic racial inequity — and, therefore, lacks the desire to remedy it — cannot responsibly govern in a multiracial society.
All of that is in addition to other atrocities from the GOP. Republicans routinely amplified Russian propaganda; repeated outright lies (e.g., that President Barack Obama illegally spied on Trump or that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III found no evidence of obstruction of justice); went along with Trump for months in his anti-mask sneering; echoed baseless claims of widespread voter fraud; and joined Trump’s hunt for the identity of the whistleblower in the Ukraine scandal (whom they dubbed a traitor).
Whether they actually believed this nonsense or simply regurgitated Trump talking points is irrelevant. They willingly took part in the assault on truth and contributed to remaking the party into a cult of personality.
House and Senate Republicans are not helpless bystanders in the Trump travesty. They protected him from criticism, enabled his antics and amplified his most egregious lies.
Once you determine Trump is unfit to serve, it really is not possible to give the rest of the party a clean bill of health.
Republicans never get to complain about these things again
- voter fraud
- the debt
- law and order
- the qualities of a Democrat’s nominees
- executive overreach
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