Yesterday saw two victories for right wing extremists - it was the official Brexit day in England, and the Senate Republicans voted to deny any witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial.
Trial? without witnesses? Just a sham. Of course if eye witness accounts of those who were directed by Trump to withhold military aid to Ukraine to force Ukraine to announce and investigation into a political opponent were allowed, it would have made no difference since the proof of Trump's crime was detailed and deep already with House witnesses. But eye witnesses of Trump doing his abuse of presidential power would have taken away the sham Republican defense that all the testimony was "hearsay".
Brexit? Right wing whackos were videoed in England waving their little English flags and whooping it up in celebration. Celebrating what? the demise of Britain and the reverting to little England.
So, authoritarianism in America took another step forward - it was never a doubt that the Republican Senate would acquit Trump, and it was never a doubt that they would disallow witnesses, and it was never a doubt that the defense lawyers would trot out labored and twisted defenses of the indefensible. Almost the entire Republican Party is now blatantly on record supporting unconstitutional cheating by a president to win a presidential election. My hope is this will be the death knell of the party that I once was a member of.
The xenophobia of England has now diminished and damaged what was once Great Britain.
And the xenophobic fears of brown and black people by too many of my conservative friends is diminishing and damaging what was once the Leader of the Free World - the United States of America. An ignorant and stupid leader of the Republican Party has conquered the Republican Party and is leading them into oblivion. Oh, they may be able to cheat their way to some victories in 2020, but the political victory for a party is more than votes in the next election. The Whigs disappeared by defending the indefensible - white supremacist defense of slavery - and the Republicans are about to disappear by defending the indefensible - a white supremacist defense of a white supremacist president.
Oh well. Let it play out.....
