What exactly is the strategy of the Republican party?
Apart from supporting the overthrow of the American Government, through violent means to install a tin-pan dictator, and blocking at every turn the process of governance at the Federal level, what exactly is their strategy aimed at accomplishing?
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy have decided that to maintain white supremacy with Donald Trump’s help, they are willing to tear down and cast aside 245 years of Democratic rule that has made the United States the richest, most powerful, most lethal nation in the history of our planet.
Oh well!!!!
There is no ignoring the reason they managed to get away with what they have done so far, i e that white people are becoming extremely fearful of losing white privilege because of demographic trends.
The calculus is that if they cannot use the old tired tropes about immigration (people coming in) and Abortion (not enough white babies coming out) as effective scare tactics, they will resort to cheating by changing voting rules, targeted gerrymandering, intimidation at polling places, and a host of other unseemly methods to stop people of color from voting.
Let us not forget that the John Roberts Supreme court in 2013, led by Roberts, the former Reagan administration anti-voting rights lawyer himself, opened that door to destroying the 1965 landmark law in its disastrous Shelby county Alabama Vs. Holder ruling.
In 2020 Donald Trump received more votes than any other president in history, but it was not enough to save his sorry criminal empire that doubled as a presidency. The irony of Trump’s defeat at the polls is that Republicans generally win when there is low voter turnout. Despite the record-breaking turnout for Trump the Republican, his personal toxicity and lack of appeal turned out anti-Trump Republicans, Independents, and Democrats in a tsunami that stunned both he and his party catapulting them into a delusional stupor leading to the idea that the elections were stolen from them.
The truth behind all of the activities that the Republican party has embarked on since their 2020 loss is that even with what they saw as a win down-ballot, they were still effectively shut out at all levels federally.
Even with the largest voter turnout in history, the Republican party still only batted 0 for 3. That is what’s guiding the Republican response efforts thus far.
The writing is now on the wall that even when they are able to use a racist mascot to churn out unprecedented numbers of votes, they are unable to win.
So the rules are out; it is now heavy armor time. The sad reality is that the Democrats are still fighting that war with bare knuckles, engaging in a fight that they are sure to lose because of the obstinacy of half their caucus that either (a) fail to understand the severity of the situation or (b) secretly relishes an America that is a white ethnostate.
Hello Senators Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, et al.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.