Give The Man A Break?

Three weeks ago today Trumpists attempted to overthrow the American republic.

That is fact. 

Every Congressman and Senator was implicitly threatened with death if he/she resisted, and several including the President of the the Senate and the Speaker of the House were specifically sought for execution. Zip-tie handcuffs were ready, a gallows was erected on the grounds, guns, knives, pipe bombs, were at the ready.

It was no secret that among the garden variety Trumpist fools livid over an imagined "stolen election" were the "Proud Boys", American Nazis, KKK, and "militia" nuts who have been threatening and carrying out violence (Oklahoma City, Charlotteville, Charleston, etc., etc., etc.) Still the Great Narcissist egged on the mob. 

Less than three weeks later, a majority of Republican (how I despise the use of that noble word to describe these anti-republican wimps) senators voted to dismiss the impeachment of the man who made up a "stolen election" from whole cloth and spent months arm-twisting officials, haranguing anyone and everyone, and lying to the nation in a desperate attempt to illicitly maintain power despite his historic defeat in the vote of the people. And yesterday one supposed-aspirant to our highest office, Nikki Haley, dismissing the assault on the very temple of our republic --- there are still physical repairs being made -- calls on us to "give the man a break".

I applaud President Biden's attempts to mend the horrible rent in our national fabric. But even he realizes that we must garner "enough" unity to recover. There are some who will never rejoin the "union". Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and others have betrayed their country and deserve no further consideration as leaders in this republic. 

Perhaps at some point they will have a Damascus Road experience. If so I'll welcome them back. Until then they deserve to be utterly ostracized from polite society in America.