Trump and Jordan- that's the best the GOP has to offer in this moment of gravity
Anyone still supporting the GOP shares the blame and the shame for what these two have already done to our country and what further damage they will do if given the chance.
This is who they are, those Republicans. Even in this moment of grave global threats they have nothing to offer.
This week the Republicans will try, again, to elect a House Speaker. There’s no need for me to revisit the mountains of reporting that make it clear that the current leading contender - Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan- is completely ill suited to the job, and a certainty that he would use the position to further poison our democracy.
Then-President Donald Trumpand Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-Ohio) during a rally on Aug. 4, 2018, in Lewis Center, Ohio. |John Minchillo | Credit: AP
This week the GOP front-runner for the presidency, Mr. Trump, is back in court. He has already been found to be a rapist and a slanderer and a business cheat. He may be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have led the effort to steal an election and to have played fast and loose with our most valuable state secrets. Again, his record is no secret; we all know it.
These two men are the Republican Party’s idea of the leadership America needs right now.
Really?
Does anything else need to be said now to understand that the GOP has become a corrupt con game, a danger to our nation, a threat to peace and stability in the world? What does this dynamic duo have to offer us?
Here’s what:
Certainly, an end to women’s reproductive freedom.
Certainly, more guns on our streets.
Certainly, vast new limitation on the government’s ability to regulate businesses to protect the environment and consumers.
Certainly, the abandonment of Ukraine and Europe to Russian military aggression.
Probably the corruption of the legal system so that political opponents can be jailed.
Probably, the corruption of the economy so that only party members get jobs and promotions.
As bad as what they would do to the country is their incompetence. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died of COVID unnecessarily because of the Trump Administration’s incompetence. Although Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats passed several landmark pieces of legislation with a tiny majority in the last Congress, the GOP House has managed to pass no bills (the few bills that did pass required the support of the majority of Democrats) and has now left us without a functioning House for the first time in a hundred years.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Jordan. That’s the best the Republicans can do. And those two are the ones they want. Finally, in case you’ve been asleep for a couple of years, let me remind you that both of these men tried to overturn a presidential election.
Anyone still supporting this party shares the blame and shares the shame.
The rest of us will work to restore the democracy at home and our leadership around the world.