GOP implosion
We’re currently seeing the entire GOP be forced to take a side in an existential crisis – probably a place where none of them imagined they’d be right now – even as far back as four years ago. Ted Cruz, to the surprise of no one, has decided the best way to win over the Trump voters he couldn’t have in 2016 is to demand an investigation of the election results and refuse to accept the fact that Donald Trump lost – a move that a few potential 2024 presidential candidates have decided to copy.
Ben Sasse, another 2024 hopeful, is betting against Trump, hoping that in four years, he’ll be remembered for gracefully accepting the results and occasionally voting in favor of President Biden so he can somehow pass as a normal Republican. Now there’s yet another group that’s speaking out against the antics of a large faction of Senate and House Republicans – and as you may have guessed, they don’t exactly have the most noble intentions in mind either.
Seven House Republicans on Sunday decided once again to say the quiet part aloud in an open letter: Republicans have only won the popular vote once in the last 32 years – and Congress denying the results of the Electoral College could mean the GOP being denied their only hope of winning in 2024. Yes, you read that right – it’s been almost 20 years since Republicans have had a mandate to govern and this is why they’ve desperately clung to the Electoral College.
The only appropriate response is to demand why they can’t win the popular vote – something that nearly everyone who doesn’t vote Republican already knows part of the answer to, and see how they try to avoid the question. The bottom line is that no Republicans in this debacle deserve praise – they’re either simply doing their job by counting the results, or committing treason by trying to overturn the results of a free election.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making