Republican representative Adam Kinzinger (Illinois) has been one of the most visible members of the GOP fighting back against misinformation being spread by the insignificant lame-duck President Donald Trump and his collaborators in the GOP. Kinzinger is one of the few GOP Congressmen showing the courage that should be a given from a member of Congress. He has been front and center along with a few other Republicans calling the President and members of his own party out for trafficking in this misinformation about the November election and fraud despite knowing these claims are false.
There is a group of cowardly GOP Senators who are planning to subvert democracy this Wednesday, January 6, 2021 when they object to the Electoral College results in a joint session of Congress. This group of impotent sycophants include, thus far: Ted Cruz (R-Texas), millionaire Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Steve Daines (R-Montana), John Kennedy (no relation; R-Louisiana), Marsha, Marsha, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Mike Braun (R-Indiana) and four cult members who were just elected to the U.S. Senate this year from Trumpian states, namely Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee) and Tommy, I'm no Nick Saban, Tuberville (R-Alabama). I list these anti-democracy fascists so you know who to vote out when their respective terms come up.
These Senators are not alone. By the latest count, nearly 140 of 200+ Republican House members plan to put their weakness on display on Wednesday. Its not going to be just the usual sycophants like Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Louis "Gomer Pyle" Gohmert (R-Texas) but a whole host of cowardly lions and lionesses who plan to further the President's lies before the American people.
Kinzinger is not completely alone anymore in his objections to this anti-democratic movement in the Republican Party, which I have no choice but to call fascism. The Nazis used propaganda, misinformation and scapegoating to con the German populous into thinking that the Nazi way was God's way, and here we are 80 years later experiencing something eerily similar to what history described in Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Joining Kinzinger in speaking out against the wild conspiracy theories in the Republican Party is Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and outgoing Congressman Denver Riggleman (Virginia). Riggleman spoke out not only about Trump, but also criticized his Republican colleagues for not speaking more forcefully especially as it pertains to made-up election fraud claims by Trump. You can read the full Newsweek article below. But I feel the need to highlight this quote by Riggleman. "He got so desperate to retain power that he forgot he was serving the people and not himself. He has never served anything but himself, when you talk about his businesses and what he's done."
I encourage you to watch all of Riggleman's farewell speech in the House (12 minutes), but starting in minute four he begins speaking out against misinformation and the damage it is doing to our democracy. Online misinformation is helping to make the public more ignorant than ever despite living through the information age.
Romney has also been at the forefront of the criticism of Don the Con, and has been questioning his rhetoric from the beginning - as early as 2016. Romney realizes that his Trump's rhetoric could lead to violence if he instigates it. Romney said of Trump's election fraud rhetoric, "it's difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting President."
Ben Sasse has recently been attacking Trump for his election fraud rhetoric, but it took a long time for Sasse to come out and speak out about Trump. Where was this Ben when dear leader was destroying America and ignoring a pandemic that has nearly killed 350,000 Americans thus far as of Jan. 2. I'm glad Sasse is speaking out but where was this earlier?
While the likes of Lindsay Graham and Moscow Mitch McConnell have not hopped on to the objection of Joe Biden's electoral college victory yet, but they haven't spoken out in force they would they should against a President who is trying to conduct a coup by overthrowing a lawful election by the American people. It is at this point that I have to remind people that Trump has NEVER won the popular vote. EVER!
The Republican Party, according to Sasse, is running scared of Trump and Trump voters, but if history has taught us anything, it's that Trump voters don't vote for or against candidates unless Dumbo is on the ballot himself. Stop running like cowards from Trump's fat shadow and uphold American democracy with pride!
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