This seems a ‘fair’ question given the top effort of the entire GOP party structure is to conspire to delay all legal actions allowing Donald Trump to skate on the vast majority of the 92 criminal counts he faces.
There appears to be an unspoken quid pro quo in this proposition. That ‘deal’ is that local autocrats in the GOP-dominated states will be able to claim the same immunity from prosecution that they all offer the ‘leader.’
What does this imply when mass deportations are ordered? Who gets the immigrants stuff??? You can bet local party operatives will be scouring the largess left behind by millions of those forced into concentration camps prior to deportation.
Their absolute disrespect, not just for people, but life in general. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction of life due to our pumping carbon, banked in the ground in the form of fossil fuels for millions of years, willy-nilly everywhere. Drill, baby drill.
GOP corporate cronyism in the field of guns is legend; blocking most efforts to reign in the proliferation of weaponry which approaches one-gun per person although only about one in three-something adults own a gun nationwide. Still, some 16 states record gun ownership exceeding 50 percent. The concentration of ownership — dozens — of guns held by a small percent of the population suggests those who may ‘recruit’ and arm private ‘militias’.
Now lets talk about the thievery they endorse by Vlad. That son of bitch is trying to steal a whole country but especially the eastern portion of Ukraine that is host to — you guessed it — fossil fuels. That’s the territory they’ve taken and hope to keep.
What is particularly galling are our oligarchs who pay no taxes use that money to coopt the GOP as they seek avoidance of laws and regulations to allow them to amass even more money. The only thing the GOP has done is appoint the six members of SCOTUS whose judgements are compromised by massive conflicts of interest.
Organized crime has proven capable of creating protection rackets through use of bribes and other corruptions. Consider the profitability of such a racket if the states’ interest is in compensating the GOP pols (aka: organized criminals). If you don’t pay protection, who knows, maybe the Klan rides that night.
Speaking of the Klan, he racists in the south have already began the task of restricting voting. Free, fair and open elections cannot co-exist with this kind of authoritarian rule so elections have to go. Hell the black GOP governor candidate from NC goes so far as to promote repeal of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. He also seems to want to repeal the 15th Amendment. The GOP SCOTUS has already gutted the 14th.
It helps to know these folks know no bounds as proven by the Jan 6 insurrection. After all, they threatened to hang the Speaker and VP from the makeshift gallows they constructed on the Capitol grounds.
Speaking of the zealots, neo-Nazis, Klan and assorted militia groups, not to mention the religious zealots in the Dominionist movement, all see the current moment as the last best chance for their ‘might makes right I’ll take your shit if I want” criminal mindset.
The promise of this massive largesse as a payoff is only part of the picture. We know that groups from CPAC to the Heritage foundation have gained the ability to elevate and decimate the careers of those who cross them. Hell, they’ll do to the disloyal what they did to Michael Cohen … put them in prison. Trump has already promised prosecutions of his enemies in the opposition, not to mention his insidious slanders.
I mean Victor Orban is visiting Mar-a-Largo. The entire Putin dominated eastern block is known for being a kleptocracy. That is the criminal future where he and his minions are above the law, free to rob, rape, indict, convict, murder and displace the lives of ordinary citizens for fun and profit. (I just heard that DJT, on Jan 6, was watching the insurrection and started replaying the moments of greatest violence as he apparently derived pleasure from viewing the mayhem.
I used to refer to Republicans as lying, cheating, thieving sons-a-bitches but now feel compelled to add criminal, the string of epithets.