Republicans have drunk the Kool-Aid. They are dangerously intoxicated
The shift from political party to cult is now complete.
This vile brew steeped in decades of hate, laced with lies, is the house drink served at Mar a Logo. Ingested in quantities it is ultimately lethal.
A delusional Donald Trump is the new Jim Jones, leading a once-respected party to mass suicide.
More than 70% Of GOP voters believe the lie that election fraud led to Trump’s loss in 2020. Republicans have now chosen to break our electoral system for political gain.
They are setting up to refuse to accept defeat in an election.
Republican groups have shifted their litigation focus from voter suppression to election subversion. The GOP is no longer satisfied with restricting who can vote; they also want to limit which votes count.
This includes litigation empowering partisan poll watchers, and even limiting county officials from allowing voters to fix simple errors on their mail-in ballot envelopes to ensure their ballots are counted.
One of the first symptoms of ingesting this toxicity is a total and complete abandonment of any decency and respect.
Republicans no longer bother with dog whistles.
The hate and call for violence are out front and center not from the party’s fringe elements but from sitting members of Congress. When they speak of voter suppression and election subversion it is no longer with a wink and nod but a full embrace of these anti-democratic tactics.
Susceptibility to the big lie may have begun 25 years ago with the Bush administration but it solidified and blossomed into a worldview under Donald Trump.
And it is a worldview that is dangerous to democracy.