The OLD Philosopher – John M. Miller
By now it is alarmingly evident that the Republican Party has morphed into the Trumplican Party. The traditional Republican Party in all its historical manifestations is dead. It has been replaced with a cult of personality in obeisance to Donald J. Trump.
All but ten members of the House of Representatives have left their former party for the Trumplicans, and only two Senators (if even two) have remained in the Grand Old Party. Seventy-five percent of the rank and file still identify with the failed autocrat who was unable to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, despite his frantic machinations.
Half the States in the Union (all of them red) have passed laws to suppress certain kinds of voters and votes. This is not a thinly disguised policy; it is a shameless exercise of blatant political power. And given the complexion of the federal courts, and especially the Supreme Court, these laws may be upheld when they are appealed.
If the Trumplicans take possession of both houses of Congress in 2022, a Trumplican victory in 2024 will be a foregone conclusion, whether or not Donald Trump will be the anointed candidate. Therefore it behooves those who are genuine patriots, as opposed to Trumplican “patriots,” to begin the movement to thwart the takeover of the country by devotees of a corrupt but very cunning political newcomer who has won but one election in his entire lifetime.
The enthusiasm of Trumplicans is not just a political aberration, something which suddenly germinated but will disappear. It is the greatest threat to American democracy since the Civil War and World War II, and it will not die until the politics of Donald Trump dies at the polls. That will not happen unless every American citizen who is not in thrall to Trump goes to the election booths in 2022 to attempt to defeat every single current Member of Congress who refused to vote to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and who have voted the draconian Trump line ever since the new Congress began operating in January of 2021.
Trumplicans know that racial minorities, low-income workers, poor people, sick people, and people with minority sexual identities are more likely to benefit from policies adopted by traditional Democrats than by traditional Republicans. Therefore they are doing everything they can now to prevent many potential Democratic-leaning voters from voting in 2022. Unless everyone who leans Democratic or Republicans who cannot abide the former president vote against every Trumplican who used to be a Republican, the Trumplicans will win in 2022. That is why next year’s election is more important than the election three years from now. Autocracy will triumph in 2022 unless dozens of House Trumplicans are defeated as well as several Trumplican Senators.
The election of 1933 sealed the fate of the German people. From then on until the defeat of the Axis Powers in 1945, there were no other elections. If the Trumplicans prevail in 2022, American elections also may permanently become a thing of the past.
Trumplican Republicanism is politically corrupt, but of equal or greater concern, it is morally corrupt. It must be crushed in 2022 in order to prevent Donald Trump or his surrogate from becoming president in 2024. Voters of America, arise; vote against Trump – vote Democratic! - July 17, 2021
John Miller is Pastor of The Chapel Without Walls on Hilton Head Island, SC. More of his writings may be viewed at www.chapelwithoutwalls.org.