Today's GOP: sanctioning open lawlessness and effectively coronating America's first tyrant.

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Will Senate Republicans make America lawful again?

The Republican Party is 165 years old. It was established to empower the “least among us.” It enforced the rule of law. And it ensured our great nation would, in fact, become a true representative democracy. Since it’s creation in 1854, the party built and worked hard to uphold a reputation for fiscal responsibility, free trade, Christian morality and an unwavering respect for and adherence to the Constitution.

In the four short years since Donald Trump and his proud boy coalition hijacked the once Grand Ol’ Party, all the aforementioned qualities, values and policies have evaporated. Republicans — at the national level — have disregarded the Constitution repeatedly, denied fellow Christians refuge, imprisoned immigrant children, declared war on free trade and created the largest federal deficit in our nation’s history.

GOP Members of Congress once eagerly sought the impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying about a “relationship” between two consenting adults.
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Now those same once morally outraged Republicans, who long ago decided this lying President is fit to serve, seem to think a presidential shakedown of an unconsenting foreign ally to secure an unfair and illegal advantage in the upcoming election does not even warrant a congressional inquiry.
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Instead of the stark display of moral indignation and calls for justice one would have expected from a Republican five years ago upon discovering questionable activities within the White House were being conducted, today’s GOP unleashed a wave of unscrupulous surrogates in an effort to mislead honest Americans into believing it is not a crime for President Trump to withhold congressionally mandated funding to support an ally at war until they produce dirt he can use to advance his 2020 re-election campaign.

The GOP is at a crossroads. Will it honor 165 years of incorporating conservative ideals into public policies that bettered the lives of every American and made us the shining city on a hill, or are the last four years irreversible.
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If allowed to proceed, Republican Senators will be forced to publicly choose between enforcing the rule of law and convicting America’s Proudest Boy, or sanctioning his open lawlessness and effectively coronating America’s first tyrant. - Alabama.com

I love a good buildup and takedown.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

1. Here's the problem, if the Democratic Party doesn't use impeachment like a rope around the GOP necks

Then they'll never be held accountable for their actions and people will eventually forget (and stop caring) that you had a political party that walked in lockstep with a fascist for their own political gain. This is a MAJOR flaw with the 2-party system and why a system built to only accept 2 political parties were always going to fail sooner or later when one half of that system began openly attacking institutions. Now the American people have no other parties to turn to because they're stuck with this shit. It's not a good system of governance and there's a reason why most liberal democracies are multi-party systems.

[lindysalsagal]

2. This. Needs. National. Attention.

Now!