2020. The year irony died for good. The republican party has become the monarchist party.

We all know the MAGA-memes how Trump will be succeeded by his children.

Alan Dershowitz reached back 150 years to find a single law-scholar who agreed with his view that the President can do whatever he wants and it wouldn't be illegal so long as the President sincerely believes he acted in the national interest.

And here we have a republican Senator outright refusing to say Yes or No, whether he agrees with that notion or not.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/cnn-hosts-stunned-after-gop-senator-refuses-to-say-trump-shouldnt-break-the-law-to-win-reelection/



Monarchists. That's what they are.

Monarchists.

Meanwhile Russia is running a new psy-ops trying to gaslight liberals by claiming that the russian meddling is a hoax concocted by antipopulist elitists and that no TRUE liberal should believe that Russia meddled.



I have always had a weak spot for the Republican Party: My elementary-school was named after Carl Schurz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz
He was born in Germany and took part in the democratic revolution in the 1840s.
When the revolution failed in 1848, he was there in the last rebel holdout, besieged by the prussian army.
He managed to slip through the siege and fled the country.
He then slipped back into Germany, organized a successful prison-break to save a fellow revolutionary from execution and slipped out of Germany AGAIN.
He emigrated to the US and became a Republican.
Lincoln sent him as an ambassador to Spain and it was him who convinced Spain not to support the southern US States in their machinations.
When the US Civil War started, he became general of the Union Army.



When the Republican Party went full-tilt xenophobic after 9/11, I told myself that they were merely traumatized. This is the Party of Lincoln after all!

When the Tea Party hounded moderates out of the Republican party, I told myself that they are merely some extremists and this is just a phase. This is the Party of Lincoln after all!

When Trump became President and the Republican Party refused to keep his worst impulses in check, I told myself that they still have everything under control and this is just a phase. This is the Party of Lincoln after all!



Then the Republican Party began arguing for executive powers that would turn the US into a monarchy in all but name.

And I knew that the Party of Lincoln, the Party of Republicanism, was no more.








Monarchists. That's what they are.

Monarchists.