The High Cost of Letting People Off the Hook

It’s been a blockbuster week, from the overturning of Roe (imagine if we hadn’t been warned) to the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff Mark Meadows. While seemingly distinct, those two tentpoles are actually holding up the same canvas, which is to say, the ongoing Republican attempt to lockdown permanent minoritarian control of life in these United States.

The GOP is happy to do that through a violent attempt to overturn an election — an act that a large chunk of its current crop of political candidates continues to both defend and deny — or through a quasi-legal exploitation of structural weaknesses in our democratic system that give a determined neo-fascist insurgency the ability to hold the rest of the country hostage.

Lest we forget: on abortion, on gun control, on the environment, on gerrymandering, on the increasing co-mingling of church and state — to name four right wing victories from just this week alone — the GOP continues to dictate policy, despite the fact that the Democratic Party controls the Presidency, the House and the Senate….for now.

(Somehow, when the roles are reversed, the Democrats are unable to pull of the same trick. Discuss.)