The World’s Most Dangerous Crybabies

The Trump Party — oh, sorry, it’s still technically known as the Republican Party (the same way Kleenex is technically known as facial tissues, or Vaseline is petroleum jelly, or Dumpsters are mobile garbage bins) — has now made it very clear that it flat-out, indisputably, no-two-ways-about-it does not believe in democracy.

There is a long chain of events attesting to that conclusion, but in the interest of keeping this blog below Dostoevesky length, let’s confine ourselves to just the most recent: the current crusade by some 140 House Republicans and a dozen Senate Republicans to have the fair and just results of the 2020 presidential election overturned on no grounds whatsoever, except that they’re mad that their party lost.

Could there be a more blunt example of utter contempt for representative democracy, or the will of the people, or the most basic tenets of our system of government?

No there could not. It’s an unvarnished attempt at a coup d’etat.

Yes, these cretins have predicated their demand on the claim of “election fraud,” but it’s risible. The GOP has been trying to promote that self-serving hoax for years by way of attempting to disenfranchise tens of millions of American voters, people of color in particular. CNN’s Gregory Kreig neatly captured the irrational, self-fulfilling prophecy of…