Adjusting to One-Party Rule
Only the Democratic party — corrupted though it may be — is willing to submit to the rule of law. Should it move to the center in order to represent everyone interested in representative democracy?
A (failed) thought experiment on one-party rule. (see the follow-up post, here.)
This week, the Republican Party took the final step. They declared, officially, that the January 6th protests, riots, violence, insurrection or murders (depending on your perspective) were “legitimate political discourse.” Further, they ratified the motion that any representatives attempting to determine what happened on that day are officially censured and no longer supported by the party. Today’s resolution declared that Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger, by agreeing to serve on the January 6th Select Committee, are guilty of “sabotage.”
Encouragingly, even Trump former stalwart Mike Pence disagreed with the decree, daring to assert that he most definitely should not have been hanged during the so-called legitimate discourse occurring at the Capitol on January 6.In striking defiance of his party, Pence claimed he still has the right to life because he did not truly have the power to…
