The Creature From Mara Lago

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

My Dear America:

There He Was.  

Once again he was lumbering awkwardly across the stage on the way to the podium.  

He was already sweaty and extremely pale and looking as though he he had just emerged from a coffin and was was starring in a remake of "The Horror of Dracula".  

The place where he was speaking was the Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio.  

Although he bragged about the crowd size it certainly looked to me as though there were fewer and less enthusiastic people there than Donald Trump was used to in the old days back when he was still running for President and later on when he actually was still President.  One could understand, however, that the crowd size might have been reduced by the number of Trump admirers from Ohio who were still locked up after their participation in the January 6th Insurrection.

He is no longer President, of course (Whether he wants to admit it or not). 

He clearly and decisively lost the Presidential Election back in November of 2020.  He will never admit that, of course, and he has somehow convinced an extensive portion of the Republican Party that his Fraud Fantasy of Joe Biden and the "Radical Communist Left Wing Democrats" screwing him out of this Righteous Landslide Victory in 2020 is a real thing.

It Is Not.  

So in honor of the Phantom Screw Job and "Big Lie" that Donald Trump holds onto like a drowning man holding onto a metal life raft that doesn't float but sinks with him beneath the waves, Many Republicans have chosen to join their leader in his Insane Fantasy.

Instead of having the balls to tell Trump that he's full of shit and that he should "Get Over It" the majority of the Republican Party seem to have chosen to look at the situation and act accordingly.  In other words the Republican Party which has long been a party that valued and praised Democracy and were always out in front when it came to protecting the vote have chosen to not only abandon sanity but also to abandon Democracy.

In nearly every State where Trump legitimately lost his Presidential Election bid in 2020 and in many other Republican Led States, as well, Republican Legislators and other Republican State Officials have chosen to blatantly advocate for Clearly Anti Democratic Legislation which are meant to and certainly will negatively affect voters who are black, poor and young.  Namely Democratic Voters

How Republicans can blatantly vote to kill Democracy in light of their party's Pro Democracy History and live with themselves is difficult if not impossible to understand.  

But John McCain and many Republicans like him are gone and clearly forgotten in today's Republican Party where "Power To The People" has been replaced by Trump Toadies like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy with "Power To The Party."

Republican Party Leaders like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy appeared to be recognizing reality and leading the charge against Donald Trump after Trump sent his Goon Squad into the Capitol on January 6th to ransack it and to hopefully "Hang Mike Pence" rather than to have him certify the election.

But at the end of that awful day Mike Pence was still alive and doing his job, which was leading Congress in Certifying the Election of Joe Biden.

Although McConnell and McCarthy spoke out forcefully at the time and shortly after the January Sixth Riot against what Trump did on that day, they have since reversed what initially appeared to be their courageous stands and now stand with Trump and his Lunatic Fringe Conspiracy Theories.

Telling the Truth in the Republican Party now seems to be an outmoded and rather Quaint Bit of Ancient American Political History.  Witness the rise of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and the fall of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom are truly Conservative Representatives who have refused to fall into line with the "Big Lie" and are paying a serious price for their honesty.

It didn't take long for Donald Trump to start passing out the Bull Shit in Ohio last Saturday.  He never mentioned the fact that he was already on notice that he might be indicted in New York any day now.

"It's a Witch Hunt" he said.  Where have we heard that one before.  Oh, That's right.  The Mueller Report"

"I'm the only one trying to save Democracy," Trump claimed. That one was almost funny.

"They used Covid To steal the Election," Trump also said.  He failed to explain how "They" did that, however.  

Trump introduced the Ohio Crowd to Some of his chosen Candidates such as Max Miller, Mike Carey and Jacketless Jim Jordan, as well as some of his other favorite syncophants including Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Trump's assessment of Democrat Tim Ryan who was running next year for Senate was a bit rude.

"He's a Stiff, A Disaster," Trump claimed.  "Look who's talking" I thought.

Whether we like it or not The Creature from Mara Lago is back.  

He is truly scary as hell and he has no limits.

He also seems to have the entire Republican Party under his control.

I don't understand it.  I will never understand it.  Truly the entire Republican Party seems to have lost its collective mind and at this point the only real way to fight it is for Democrats to give Republicans what they fear most. 

We need to organize the Democratic Party more than we ever have before because, People, Democracy is on the line and it is on the ropes and if we are not careful we might find ourselves living in Nazi Land and Trust me that is not a place where any of us want to live and if you have your senses about you and can think for yourself whether or not you are a Republican or a Democrat you don't want to live in a Nazi Country.

But these are scary times and Donald Trump is a frightening character and his party is even more frightening because he and they are willing to say goodbye to Democracy.

I'm not ready for that and I trust that We have enough Americans who we can get together in our future elections to get these Frightening Ceatures out of our politics so that we can go back to our imperfect but Decent Democracy that we do have now and would like to keep as long as we Possibly can.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher