The thing that still calls itself the Republican Party gave up on Democracy a while back, as evidenced by the Republican Supreme Court overturning the Voting Rights laws followed immediately by red states finding many ways to reduce Black and Brown voting, including closing polls, radical gerrymandering, intimidating poll watchers, and making it punishingly hard to vote.
These make believe Republicans have no choice but to abandon democracy because they know their desires to impose Christo-fascist domination is abhorrent to the majority of voters. They are convinced that the country has literally gone to “the Devil” and the only way to save it is to impose the strictest Old Testament bigotries on us all, thinking that will somehow please the vengeful Old Testament God of Cruelty who will Make America Great Again (Make America Grovel Again?).
And since voters are not going to vote for the Christo-fascists they have to destroy democracy.
The extremist Rick Santorum spoke their extremist truth after more states voted to make sure women decided their own reproductive lives yesterday when:
“Santorum argued that Ohio was proof that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”
I understand that we are a democratically elected Republic, but we also have single issue referendums to thwart unresponsive political machines. Hurray for Ohio women!
At least he spoke their basic world view.
