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The GOP is Still the Stupid Party
Trump was defeated, but Republicans still elevate deranged candidates
The worst president in history might have been defeated, but we still have to deal with the GOP, a party that seems to love to elevate the most deranged and ignorant candidates. As I’ve written before, it’s not just Donald Trump that’s the problem. The impeachment process showed that dozens of other GOP legislators were also in the pocket of Russia. And several Republicans support Trump’s quixotic attempt to overturn the election. Sec. of State Mike Pompeo recently talked about a “second Trump term” even as Vice President Joe Biden secured 306 electoral college votes.
Many Republicans don’t “believe” in climate change or the coronavirus. How many more Republicans are going to die because they refuse to “believe” in a disease that’s killed 250,000 Americans in eight months? The latest is Bishop Harry Jackson, a member of Trump’s faith advisory team, who attended super spreader events at the White House, sans mask, even though he was a cancer survivor. He died last week. You would have thought the death of former presidential candidate Herman Cain, who attended a Trump rally in Tulsa and flouted mask rules, would have served as a warning. He was also a cancer survivor.
