They need to get serious, to look inside themselves and see if they actually believe in anything besides asking for money and doing what their donors tell them to do.
Not since ‘03 when they nodded “I guess” as their previous demented president declared that sovereign borders don’t matter because his V.P. believed it was time for “regime change” have the GOP politicians in Washington had to make a decision. They’ve been cruising along collecting large donations and following their ethically empty leaders for a long time.
None of them balked in 2009 when those leaders decided to oppose the newly elected dark-skinned Democratic president. They followed their leaders in defaming and delegitimizing the dark-skinned president, disenfranchising dark-skinned citizens and voicing preference for strong nationalist leaders of other countries who looked more like themselves, the ones from Israel and Russia.
For eight years they picked up the big campaign donations and praised their chief justice for ruling that politicians could accept all the money offered to them from whatever source and use it any way they wanted. And their chief justice ruled that the presence of a dark-skinned president meant that we were “post-racial” and the G.O.P. politicians could choose who they would allow to vote and never have to worry about dark-skinned people voting against them.
Life got so good for the G.O.P. politicians with the opposition muted and the big campaign donations growing that they lost touch with the meaning of the Constitution they glorified and stopped worrying about ever having to be serious again.
But now a different country, led by one of those rulers the G.O.P. politicians preferred to their dark-skinned president, is practicing regime change on the United States and the G.O.P. politicians have to decide if allowing that is worth the big campaign donations and never finding out what is in their souls.
