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The Republican Party Is No More

On December 18, 2019, after a three-year illness, the Republican party finally breathed its last and succumbed to the sickness known as Trumpism. The party formerly known as ‘the Republican Party’ is now ‘the Trump Party’, and those who have persisted in clinging to the principles the Republican party once espoused are not only unwelcome in the Trump party, they will continue to be identified as ‘human scum’ by its Dear Leader.

The demise of the Republican party – although predictable given the lack of morals and ethics of those who have abandoned its core values – came as a shock to those who still proudly considered themselves to be the party of Lincoln, the party that once stood-up to their own president, Nixon, when his corruption was exposed.

It came as a shock to those Republicans who still believed that upholding the Constitution superseded all other considerations, and defying the rule of law was a line that no president, regardless of political party, would be allowed to cross.

The Trump party is now a reality. It is a party that does not care if the citizenry is repeatedly lied to, if our national security is jeopardized, if Russian interests are put above the interests of our own nation, if children are locked in cages, if our allies are insulted as our enemies are embraced, if their “pResident” invites foreign influence in our elections, if their “pResident” defies the Constitution, if their “pResident” encourages violence and division, if their “pResident” declares himself above the law.

The Trump Party ‘base’ is comprised of those too stupid to recognize that they are promoting the idea that a US president should be a dictator, free to decide what is lawful and what is not. They are people too dumb to realize that should their “pResident” decide that their rights as citizens are not to his liking, those rights can simply be done away with at his whim. They are people who are willing to accept lies in place of truth, and inane rhetoric in place of facts.

I, for one, mourn the death of those who were once our ‘friends across the aisle’. I mourn the passing of the Republican party that may have disagreed with us, but had the spine to stand up for what they once claimed to believe in.

I mourn the demise of the Republican party that knew the difference between right and wrong. I mourn the fact that we may never see that Republican party again, because it has been replaced by a party that has only one purpose – to uphold, protect, and defend the traitor they placed in the Oval Office.

The now-deceased Republican party will be buried – without fanfare or recognition of its passing – under the tens of thousands of lies told by Donald Trump, along with the cover-ups of his criminal behaviour and the enabling of his corruption by the newly-formed Trump party.

The funeral for the Republican party will be held in secret, attended only by those brave enough to show up despite the threat of vitriolic tweets – a threat that Trump party members fear more than anything else. And the fact that vitriolic tweets scare the Trump party tells you all you need to know about just how spineless that party is.