The Republicans call themselves the “Law and Order Party.” Yet House Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the punishment of one of former President Trump’s thugs Steve Bannon for spitting on a lawfully issued subpoena to testify before the January 6 House Select Committee.
They like to call themselves the
“Party of Patriotism.” But mostly all Republican officials and a vast majority
of the party’s membership deny the results of the free and fair 2020
presidential election following the demands from their cult leader Donald
Trump. They not only publicly believe Trump’s Big Lie but they have continued
to propagate it.
These folks don’t want the facts
from the run-up of the January 6 insurrection—the largest attack on our citadel
of democracy in centuries—to see the light of day lest that would affect the
midterms in 2022. Note that Republicans who were elected and re-elected last
November had no such concerns of “voter fraud” in their own races stemming from
the same ballots!
They like to say how much they
revere the American flag. Of course, many do. But they seem to have no problem
that such flags and their attached poles were used as weapons during the
insurrection on January 6, 2021that was incited by Trump to prevent the
certification of the presidential election.
In that regard, they call
themselves the party that supports the police—the Blue Line, Blue Lives Matter,
etc. Yet again, when hundreds of police were attacked by lawless criminals
using an array of weapons on January 6, the Republicans in both houses
succeeded in preventing the establishment of a nonpartisan commission to
investigate the domestic terrorism as the FBI characterized it and have tried
to delegitimize the January 6 committee. They also overwhelmingly refused to award medals
to police heroes who put themselves on the line during the Capitol riot.
The GOP prides itself as the “Party
of Fiscal Responsibility.” But wait, under President Trump the national debt
ballooned to nearly $8 trillion, the highest in our history.
The Republicans are all about
freedom and liberty. Very cool. Nonetheless, dozens of Republican controlled
state legislatures have passed or are in the process of passing laws that
impose major roadblocks to voting. Much of these laws are targeting Blacks and
people of color thus denying or at least impeding their freedom to vote.
Republicans in Congress have stymied voter protection laws. So much for
freedom.
They see themselves as the “Party
of Family Values.” But they balk at or mock Democratic attempts to provide
child care, health care, nutritional services and economic relief to working
families—all measures that would strengthen and keep families together.
Republicans consistently
maintain that they are the “Pro-life Party.”
Whether it’s the GOP elected officials or their voters, they have
eschewed wearing masks in public spaces and peddle misinformation about proven
vaccines intended to curb serious illnesses and deaths attributed to Covid-19.
They overwhelmingly support the death penalty, too.
And don’t get me started on
their being the “Party of Morality.” This article would triple in size if I
delved into that topic.
To be clear, some of these examples of hypocrisy began before Trump. But Trump is the Republican Party. He has taken hypocrisy to new depths. And the hypocrisy will continue during the Republicans’ ongoing quest for autocracy while our democracy will melt away like an Arctic glacier.
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