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An American coup
Watching what is happening in Congress is heartbreaking to me, as a small-d democrat, and as an American. That our elected representatives would attempt to undermine a free and fair election is frightening. What has our country come to?
Whatever it has come to, it has been a long road to get here. Listening to Mitch McConnell wax lyrical about American democracy and our institutions and advise his Republican colleagues against “partisan vengeance” is so rich I could gag. This is the man who has spent the past decade engaging in partisan vengeance, from saying “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,” to refusing a hearing on Merrick Garland, to railroading Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court, to, to, to. Any speech about the need to come together as Americans without some repentance of his own sins just rings hollow.
His comparisons to the lone Democrat who objected to the 2004 election as well as Democratic concerns about the 2016 election also ring hollow. To begin with, John Kerry distanced himself from Barbara Boxer’s objection in 2004. Kerry, unlike Trump…
