No, Lindsey Graham, You Can't "Unify" a Nation if Republicans Won't Renounce the Big Seditious Trump Lie
January 24, 2021
No, Lindsey Graham, “You Can’t Pray a Lie” (DonkeyHotey)
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH
Senator Lindsey “So What if I Am an Indefatigable Hypocrite” Graham (R-SC) wants Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) not to hold impeachment hearings because trying Trump for incitement to insurrection would prevent the United States from “unifying” and “healing.”
This is the pushback stance Republicans in DC have adopted for years, shamelessly putting Democrats on the defensive when the GOP is responsible for repeatedly causing Grand Canyon political chasms in the nation. As an example, in the early morning hours of January 7th the majority of House Republicans voted to support the big lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump. You can’t unify a nation when your party is backing a treasonous coup attempt.
This is a fabricated narrative, found to be without merit by more than 60 courts, including the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, recent polls have shown that a large majority of Republicans believe in this Trump demagogic “alternative reality.” No wonder the likes of Insurrectionist enabler and obnoxiously ambitious Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) objected to Arizona Biden electors claiming he was representing the 80 percent or so of Republicans who believe Trump won the election. Note that Cruz never argued that he was convinced there was electoral fraud. Instead, he circled the drain by illogically asserting, in essence, that because Trump successfully pulled off a Goebbels-style big lie that an “enemy of the state” suppressed his victory, Biden must not be declared the winner because Trump cult supporters are marinating in the deception, which thus makes it valid even if there is no proof of any election fraud or tampering, except those committed criminally by Trump.
Trump created, orchestrated and disseminated this “knife in the back” narrative of victimhood and grievance, stoking up his cult and eventually launching a failed coup attempt, which his psychotically-bonded followers accepted as the gospel. They believe in him as if he is a religious leader who merits their dying for his “lost cause,” as he appeals to them as if he were Christ, and as if his being an alleged victim of a “stolen election” makes them victims too.
The notion of unifying the nation when some 73 million voters are in a state of mass psychosis and do not accept that Biden won in a fair and trouble-free election is farcical, and the Republicans know it. You can’t “heal” as long as Republicans such as Graham, Hawley, Cruz and untold GOP members of the House fully back a sociopath over democracy and the Constitution.
You can’t heal a nation that relies on the rule of law if a president is allowed to commit treason, launch a coup attempt, have his murderous followers invade the US Capitol and conspire to tamper with the election without punishment.
I recall watching Vice President Kamala Harris administer the oath of office to three new senators on the afternoon of Wednesday the 20th—Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff and Alex Padilla—and thinking of Trump’s betrayal. The oath reads,
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Trump has not only failed to defend us against foreign enemies (think Russia), but, in an act of epic betrayal, promoted domestic terrorism to try and maintain personal power.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy recently asserted, “A vote to impeach would further divide this nation, a vote to impeach will further fan the flames.” No, it won’t, the fires are raging because Republican leaders will not acknowledge the truth, and you cannot have unity until there is common agreement on what is true and what is false. You cannot “heal” a nation when the majority abide by the truth and the minority (Republicans) swear allegiance to the big lie.
McCarthy also, after originally saying that Trump did play a role in inciting the insurrection. has indeed changed his tune, now blaming, yes he is, Democrats for January 6, according to PoliticusUSA,
During a new interview with Greta Van Susteren, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) placed blame on Democrats, social media users, and those who call themselves the “resistance” for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
It begs credulity, but the Republican Party, egged on by Trump, is willing to choose minority white Christian rule over an inclusive democracy: autocracy vs. resilience.
Lindsey Graham has his arm so far up Trump’s ass that he can fondle Trump’s tongue. He unabashedly asserts that impeachment, when a president has committed sedition and insurrection, is to be overlooked. It brings to mind the cliché that Trump is like the boy who shoots his parents and then wants the court to free him because he is an orphan.
Republicans, who like to think of themselves as religious warriors against a secular society, should read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. In regards to racism, Huck concludes, “You can’t pray a lie.”
But the Republicans — who believe in the assertion of raw, brutal power, unrestrained by principle — keep trying to pray a lie.
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