The Republicans in Congress have, if not a macabre definition of death, or like their view on which life is worth their Pro-Life, they just prefer to pick and choose who is alive and who is dead. Of course, the decision regarding Life and Death always depends on pleasing either Trump or the audience of FOX!
It was easy to declare Lindsey Graham dead, because not only did Lindsey actually die, but he died while a Senator in a state governed by a MAGA Governor, meaning that it will be easy peasy to immediately replace the now deceased Senator. However Mitch McConnell maybe a live or maybe dead, but as far as the Republicans are concerned it is much more beneficial to keep the guy alive, because he lives in a state governed by a Democrat, and even though the Republican State House changed the Constitution to keep him from replacing a deceased Senator, it seems that the odds are a non-MAGA or a non Trumpster might become Senator.
Not hard to follow, is it! If you are in Congress in a red state, with no one but other MAGA Republicans in line to replace you, then the GOP can declare you died. If you are in a red state with a bunch of other people who aren’t MAGA enough for you wanting to replace you, then, according to Republican law, you are really not dead, at least until the next election in November.
The self-described political party identifying as a Pro-Life Party, which is also quite picky on whose life it is that matters…(not an immigrant, not kids needing nutrition or three meals a day, not a female whose pregnancy is life-threatening, and not those who cannot afford health care) but the fetus or zygote in the womb. This same political party is also quite picky about who is dead and whose death is too inconvenient for the party’s own survival!