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<\/p>\nThe Republican Party appears to be gaily goose-stepping its way toward the dustbin of history. Their seeming disregard for the enduring values that made America great – liberty, equality, and justice – is reflected in the daily demented ravings of their Dear Leader, Donald Trump, whose authoritarian aspirations are as pronounced as ever, despite his rapidly evolving irrelevancy.<\/p>\n
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Trump has been reduced to petulantly whining about being investigated for his many crimes<\/a><\/strong>, and impotently issuing orders that are being resoundingly ignored<\/a><\/strong>. And yet the Republican Party continues to embrace him as their political messiah.<\/p>\n To that end, the Republican National Committee (RNC) lashed out at a couple of their own members that were deemed to be insufficiently worshipful of Master Trump. Longtime rock-ribbed conservatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were unceremoniously drummed out of the Party’s good graces for their roles on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. They were formally censured by the RNC, whose chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, condemned them<\/a><\/strong> because they had the audacity to “engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Legitimate political discourse?”<\/em> That’s what the GOP is calling the deadly riots on January 6th by “ordinary citizens”<\/em> (aka StormTrumpers) attempting to prevent Congress from carrying out its constitutional duties. The abhorrent absurdity of that characterization did not go unnoticed by the decent denizens of Washington. Foremost among them was Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Following the RNC’s announcement of the censure, he spoke to reporters pointedly noting that…<\/p>\n \u201cThe \u2018C\u2019 in RNC doesn\u2019t stand for committee, it stands for cult. It’s not the Republican National Committee. It’s the the Republican National Cult. That is the only way you can explain how the Grand Old Party would come to the conclusion that people who engaged in rampant mob violence, urinated, defecated, desecrated the Capitol, brutally beat up police officers, seriously injured more than 140. Police officers lost their lives as a result of the events on January 6th and the cult says that it’s ‘legitimate political discourse?’ They come to that conclusion because they continue to bend the knee to the twice impeached so-called president, Donald Trump.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe \u2018C\u2019 in RNC doesn\u2019t stand for committee, it stands for cult.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 House Dem. Chair Hakeem Jeffries (NY) on the RNC calling January 6th \u201clegitimate political discourse\u201d pic.twitter.com\/W1Yez50NTF<\/a><\/p>\n — The Recount (@therecount) February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n