By Michael Woyton
Man, what a month last week was.
It seemed like every time you turned around there was another disturbing piece of news about Pres. Donald J. Felon.
The adjudicated rapist pardoned more than 1,500 people, some of whom had attacked and beaten police officers on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021.
He pulled security details extended by President Joe Biden for former COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The felon said they were all wealthy enough to pay for their own protection.
And he is trying to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the Constitution he swore to uphold on Inauguration Day.
There is more he did over the past few days, KCCI News reported.
Anyone who is not a GOPmaga was waiting to see what kind of pushback would come from Democratic officials.
Reid J. Epstein, reporting from Washington, D.C., for the New York Times, led his Friday article with this: “As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape the federal government, Democrats have retreated into a political crouch that reflects their powerlessness in Washington,” adding that Dem lawmakers are taking a “wait-and-see approach” and some are “even making a show of working with Republicans.”
What the hell are they waiting for?
Many voted to allow unauthorized migrants to be deported without due process just because they’ve been accused — not convicted — of a crime. Kristi “Dog Killer” Noem received Democratic votes for her confirmation as head of Homeland Security. Hell, no one voted against Marco Rubio becoming secretary of state.
It’s mind boggling that anyone in the Democratic Party is helping advance any of the Pres. Felon’s nominees.
Can they possibly think that a vote here or a vote there for something that the former mayor of Mar-a-Lago wants will put them in his good graces?
Does he even have good graces?
Then on Sunday, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, posted on the site formerly known as Twitter, using his official House account, this:
“Presidents come and Presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne.”
That is a lovely sentiment in normal times. But these are not normal times. The felon-in-chief is not a normal person. He had a meltdown when an Episcopal bishop asked him to have mercy on those less fortunate.
Marc Elias, the chairman of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket, has been on the front lines fighting for voting rights that the GOPmagas have been trying to take away from us.
He’s been saying for a while now that we are sliding toward an illiberal democracy.
Yes, we still have an elected government, but “Institutions that assured us they would be in the fight for democracy are already backing down” and “Too many with the loudest microphones are turning them down.”
That is why Elias says “we are on our own.”
He said it is a bigger problem than one person can solve but he believes that building a new opposition “grounded in winning elections and fighting Trumpism for the long term” is necessary.
Jeffries received, not surprisingly, a lot of criticism on social media for his tweet. However, the tweet is still live and, it seems, he has not offered any other comment about it.
Thoughts and prayers ain’t gonna cut it.
I’m not saying all our Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are wussing out — AOC and Jasmine Crockett come to mind — but I’m just not seeing a concerted effort to take the newly elected felon to task.
They need to step up to the plate NOW or we really will be on our own and it won’t be in a democracy.
Lead photo by Michael Woyton
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