“HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY, SIR? AT LONG LAST HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?” ("Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness"), Army counsel Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954
In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was famous for his aggressive anti-communist stance, and speeches in which he claimed to be in possession of long lists of names of communists in the State Department, the military, and elsewhere in government. He made full use of his position as chair of the Senate Committee on Government Operations and its Permanent Committee on Investigations. He destroyed the careers of many people by claiming that they had belonged to communist front organizations or associated with communists. His success at this owed a lot to the fact that he was able to play "judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one."
“If you count the legal votes, I win,” he said, before ticking off a litany of baseless claims about ways his campaign had supposedly been cheated by his opponents, nonpartisan poll workers, and a vast conspiracy of technology companies and big business. Instead of letting the process play out, the president is calling on election officials to stop counting ballots, potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters. (New York Times) Trump also called out cities like Philadelphia and Detroit as cesspools of anti-Americanism, and officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania as traitors, and conspirators!
So with a few exceptions, the Republicans have largely returned to the position they often adopt with the president: silence. But it may become increasingly difficult to stay quiet. Trump had, in the past declared war on democracy, and for me at his Propaganda, so-called Press Conference, held in the White House, was like The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) like the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist),
It is no longer, just the responsibility of the Biden/Harris Team to try and soothe the frayed nerves and fear of America or promise things could be better, BUT NOW it is TIME for any REPUBLICAN with any prominence or prestige to SPEAK UP AND OUT AND AGAINST, a president who has declared a Civil War against America. (And YES, it is THAT serious, and no, fuck you if t=you think this is just HYPEROBLY OR HYPERBOLIC!
“I need a hero
I'm holdin' out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I'm holdin' out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be sure
And it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
Larger than life” (Holding Out For a Hero/Bonnie Tyler)
