The Coup-Coup Birds Take Flight, Con't

As some seventeen Republican attorneys general have now signed on to the Texas lawsuit demanding the Supreme Court overturn the election and declare Trump the winner, the slow realization that we are in the middle of a active coup is finally beginning to permeate the American people. Rush Limbaugh is openly telling his listeners to expect a broken union.

 

All right. Mr. Snerdley is asking if we’re ever going to be able to win. And he’s talking about elections. Votes. Are we ever gonna be able to win without taking back some of these cities? He’s talking about blue cities like New York, Philadelphia. I assume you mean Detroit? Do you include Milwaukee in this? Definitely, all right. What about Oakland, California? Too far gone. San Francisco? You think we can get San Francisco? Look, we won election after election after election without winning these cities or the states they’re in.

I thought you were asking me something else when you said, “Can we win?” I thought you meant, “Can we win the culture, can we dominate the culture.” I actually think -- and I’ve referenced this, I’ve alluded to this a couple of times because I’ve seen others allude to this -- I actually think that we’re trending toward secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York? What is there that makes us believe that there is enough of us there to even have a chance at winning New York? Especially if you’re talking about votes.

I see a lot of bloggers -- I can’t think of names right now -- a lot of bloggers have written extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming politically and that it can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.

And I know that there’s a sizable and growing sentiment for people who believe that that is where we’re headed, whether we want to or not -- whether we want to go there or not. I myself haven’t made up my mind. I still haven’t given up the idea that we are the majority and that all we have to do is find a way to unite and win, and our problem is the fact that there are just so many RINOs, so many Republicans in the Washington establishment who will do anything to maintain their membership in the establishment because of the perks and the opportunities that are presented for their kids and so forth.

 

And of course the problem is not that Trump has failed, but that "RINOs" have failed Trump. As Steve M. points out, Republicans in Congress cannot accept a Biden win now, even if they wanted to, which they don't.

Three Republican senators who aren't retiring will probably endorse the electoral vote: Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. Add Toomey and you might well have the complete list of senators who'll reject the protest. In the House, the only Republican I have any confidence in is Adam Kinzinger.

They can't back down now -- their base will come for them the way they're coming for legislators and election officials of both parties who won't toe the line.

This handful of Republicans plus all the Democrats will ensure that Biden's win is ratified.

And after that, the violence will start. Be ready.

Here's my nightmare scenario.

One thing I absolutely know is coming in the next Congress, is that the GOP will repeatedly try to force a national voter ID law that eliminates early voting and vote-by-mail, and they will block everything until they get it, cabinet appointments, COVID-19 relief, spending bills, everything. Democrats aren't going to be able to handle it, and they will cave.

The violence will still happen, of course.

 

At some point, after the violence starts increasing this winter and into the spring, we're going to have grown adults say that Joe Biden is responsible for the casualties, that it doesn't really matter if he "stole" the election if tens of millions of Americans believe he did, and more than a small number are killing and destroying, that this violence was the inevitable result of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and that Biden and Harris should both resign for the good of the nation.

 

There will absolutely be Democrats who will nod their heads and say that Biden and Harris should do exactly that, that Harris should name a new Republican VP, one who will be confirmed by the Senate, and then installed as a "caretaker" President. Depending on the level of violence and the continuing spread of the pandemic, it could happen within a matter of months.

And I don't know what happens after that.

I absolutely want to be wrong, I absolutely want to believe that good people will stand up for this country and come to its aid.

But this is America.  We used to do that, on occasion.  Not anymore.