On Monday, the Republican party made it perfectly clear they would boost Donald Trump's efforts to shred our democracy at any cost. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and Attorney General William Barr played their part in the hatchet job, each of them endorsing Trump's bid to fabricate the fraud he insists exists but hasn't been able to locate anywhere. Every single lawsuit his D-list team has filed has withered "on first contact" with the law, as one NPR reporter put it.
And while GOP leaders like McConnell and the attorney general are actively fueling the fire of faux disenfranchisement, nearly all other Republican lawmakers are standing by and standing ready as Trump takes one last swing at leveling America's institutions on his way out the door.
On Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware said his GOP counterparts had been congratulating him, adding, "please convey my well wishes to the President-Elect, but I can't say that publicly yet."
But Coons also declined to names names, saying, "these are conversations that are best kept private." In Coons' view, his job was to continue urging them privately to "do the right thing."
Good god, Democrats—how about a little public outrage? If McConnell and Barr are going to breathe life into Trump's fantasy fraud, hold a fricking press conference and stand up for our democracy. Private well wishes from these spineless pukes isn't good enough. Every day lost to propping up Trump's deflated ego brings us another step closer to national security disaster. In fact, Trump is currently undertaking a purge at the Pentagon while Biden and his team continue to be denied access to critical intelligence in the Presidential Daily Brief because some no-name cultist at General Services Administration is too busy lawyering up to do her fucking job.
Pardon my French, but Democrats are giving life to the GOP's baseless fraud claims by letting them go almost entirely unchecked. Sure, Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke up from the Senate floor Monday, but that’s not enough. Let’s go big, dammit. We beat an incumbent president with a vast state-run propaganda machine, and Democratic lawmakers better start shouting it from the rooftops at daily press conferences before this dissolves into armed chaos in the streets—which is exactly what Trump has always aimed for on his way to stealing the election.
Here’s Coons: