I am not alone

It turns out I not alone in my outrage in the GOP's failure to stand up for democratic institutions like elections. Republican representative from Michigan, Paul Mitchell, has left the GOP because the party is no longer conservative, or for that matter, believes in any of the issues that they claimed to be all about for years. 

My whole life the Republican Party portended to be about less spending, free-trade, family values, the military, a strong foreign policy, including strong alliances, and that they were pro life. They clearly either were lying then, or have abandoned all their beliefs in order to accommodate this cult-like figure, Donald Trump. 

The Republican Party has spent the last four years under Trump running up the national debt as high as it has ever been and that was even before the pandemic started. They abandoned their belief in free trade and instead backed Trump's moronic trade wars that only increased taxes on American consumers and American companies. They have looked the other way as 300,000-plus Americans have died of the covid-19 virus and followed Dumbo's lead in not wearing masks or following any of the guidelines set forth by the CDC. Worse still, they did not model good behavior for the rank-and-file members of the party. They have sat in silence as Trump has cozied up to dictators while bashing our traditional allies. You get the point. The list goes on and on. 

Well I guess enough was enough for representative Mitchell, and if you haven't seen this video, you need to watch it. Mitchell outlines his disgust with the GOP's blind devotion for Trump, and how the party is trying to subvert the will of the people - the votes in this election.       

On the election front, Joe Biden cleared yet another hurdle today. The electoral college voted across the country, and confirmed the election results on five weeks ago, but that hasn't stopped maniacal Republicans, like Mitchell's colleague Jim Jordan, from vowing to hold a fight on the floor of the House of Representatives to try yet again to disenfranchise the voters and their will. I have to stress here again that there is nothing more anti-democracy than claiming the election is a fraud.  

Remember they are attaching themselves to a man that has never won the popular vote in either Presidential election that he has been a part of. They are casting their lot with a two-time loser who will drag the entire party down.

Trump is a despicable man and that has never changed. The bigger problem here is that the Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan has sold its integrity, assuming they ever had it, and its soul to back a grifter and conman who mocked war heroes, but was to much of a coward to serve in the military himself.

Teddy Roosevelt was my political hero because he went against his party and told all the financiers of his time that they needed to change the way they did things, or he would change it for them. Back then, he was called by the Congress, a traitor to his class. But everything he did, he did because it was in the best interest of the American people, and that is diametrically opposed to Trump, who does things in his own best interest only, and this GOP refuses to show the courage that John F. Kennedy detailed in his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Profiles in Courage. For me, that's unacceptable and always will be!