the most competent post-Covid pandemic government in the free world, I have yet to hear any conservative, any ex-recent-Republican, any of those who have been parts of the Republican Party, its politicians, its judicial appointments, its, God help us, Supreme Court appointees APOLOGIZE FOR THE POLICIES AND IDEAS AND CLAIMS AND PROCLAMATIONS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT US HERE. TRUMP II.
It is Republicans and conservatives who gave us the previous record breaker in adjudicated criminality within a presidential administration, Nixon. It brought us to the then record-breaker in that, Reagan. It brought us Bush I, an administration so corrupt that George H.W. Bush pardoned his way out of himself being the subject of a likely indictment for high crimes committed during his presidency. It brought us Bush II through the Bush v Gore 5 Supreme Court "justices" - conservative Republicans - whose actions were so bad that they lost two Republican "justices" who voted against that overthrowing of American Democracy, the Supreme Court choosing to install Bush I's idiot son whose irresponsibility led to 9-11 and, not only the hopeless Afghan war in response to what was largely a Saudi financed terror event but which then used the opportunity to lie us into invading Iraq, a bloodbath so catastrophic that the numbers of those whose deaths resulted make the lake of blood Saddam Hussein was responsible for look like nothing. And to top that off there was the Bush II economic crisis which nearly did what Trump is now well on his way to doing.
And it should not be forgotten that Bush II cemented the Republican-fascist control of the Supreme Court which has largely been at the center of enabling Trump, both during his first regime and now as the Judicial system under the Roberts Court not only failed to stop Trump - repealing parts of the 14th Amendment and turning the American presidency into an absolute monarchy for all practical purposes - it is clear that under the guardianship OF CONSERVATIVES the American Constitution has failed entirely.
Anyone who claims that isn't the case is lying AS TRUMP HAS YET TO BE STOPPED BY IT.
Sharing the greatest share with the Supreme Court is the Republican caucus of the Congress, which could have stopped Trump by convicting him of the most outrageous and clearly impeachable offenses in BOTH OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIALS.
All of this is the consequence of American conservatives going back half a century, this decent into American fascism has been a consequence of the choices of conservatives.
AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE ROLE THE AMERICAN MEDIA HAS PLAYED IN THIS, BOTH THE ADMITTED CONSERVATIVES AND THE "BOTH-SIDES" ASSHOLES WHOSE "EVEN HANDEDNESS" ALWAYS ENDS UP PROMOTING REPUBLICAN-FASCISM. And that includes the "liberal media" which was never liberal, the New York Times played an enormous role in promoting it, as did all of the networks, including PBS and NPR, most of those in the press who aren't culpable run small newspapers or magazines. And a lot of those which may come to mind, such as The Nation and The Progressive and In These Times are not off the hook in that regard. Promoting idiotic spoiler "third-party" and independent candidates and driving down the anti-fascist vote that counts.
I wouldn't suggest anyone hold their breath waiting for a. conservatives, even those ex-Republicans to start, in large numbers, admitting their role in bringing us to this and asking for forgiveness, b. waiting to breathe for the media to admit to it is even more likely to get you dead. The lawyers, the judges, the "justices" will certainly not admit to the role they played in this. Nor will anyone in the media ever try to get them to admit it. They're all too busy trying to get governors of states hit by major catastrophes to sell books for Jake Tapper in the latest ginned-up program to make low-information voters blame Joe Biden and Democrats for them giving us Trump.
This kind of media campaign ahead of a difficult election for Republicans, to give the low-information voters a vague sense that Democrats can't be trusted has been going on my entire life. If I had a dollar for everyone I've encountered who had some vague sense that Hillary Clinton was corrupt WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO SAY HOW OR WHY THEY THOUGHT THAT I'd be rich.
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