If you still identify as Republican, the recent statement of the state party Chairwoman Sue Cienki may be of interest, because this is what you stand for now. The ProJo reached her for comment by phone, and, while noting that the storming of the Capitol was “horrifying,”
She stopped short of criticizing Trump, however, who has refused to accept the results of the November election and called on his supporters to overturn a vote he considers fraudulent.
“I think he has made a strong statement that there should be peaceful demonstrations and this is not acceptable,” Cienki said of Trump, who held a rally before the violence began.
No mention of his rally earlier in the day, whipping the crowd into a frenzy; no mention of the Republican Sedition Caucus which continued its assault on democracy as the smell of tear gas still permeated the halls. Also absent from her statement were the words: armed insurrection, treason, sedition, coup attempt, rioters, and incitement to violence. And let’s throw in, although it happened all of five days ago, threatening a secretary of state to fix the election results. Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic:
This is sedition, plain and simple. No amount of playacting and rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party and its apologists are advocating for the overthrow of an American election and the continued rule of a sociopathic autocrat.
So, you Republicans are all in with Trump now. But let’s go back to last summer’s Republican National Convention when, instead of producing a new Republican platform, party leaders just decided that the platform is whatever Trump says it is. If you did not immediately disaffiliate, then here is a short list of the things you were actively supporting: children in cages, shooting Black people, sexually assaulting women, and concentration camps.
It is no longer possible to be one of the “good” Republicans. The concept doesn’t exist anymore. You will have to come up with a new party with a new name.
This is an easy call: Go here to disaffiliate today.
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Here are the thoughts of one Republican, Bret Stephens, writing in the WashPo. I agree with this take on the current situation: Impeach and Convict. Right Now. Trump is too dangerous to leave in office.
(Seen here is the basement of the state house where we can store the remnants of the Grotesque Old Party.)