August 22nd, 2022
My Dear America:
Well, it took a few more decades than George Orwell Predicted but 1984 has finally arrived in The United States in 2022.
2022 is the year that Black became White, Good became Bad and Truth became Fiction in the Republican Political Party in the United States of America.
And in Donald Trump's mind and the minds of many of his followers, the fact that Democrat Joe Biden was actually elected President of the United States by a wide margin with actual vote talleys in every state in the union suddenly didn't matter anymore. Democracy didn't matter anymore. American voters didn't matter anymore. Some Trump Supporters even felt compelled (With Their Leader's Encouragement) to storm the United States Capitol building while the Capitol was in session to certify the legitimate election vote totals of 2020.
Although some members of The Capitol Police Force and the D.C. Police force died and countless others were seriously injured by Donald Trump's Goon Squad, many Republican Legislators who were visibly Shaken and Outraged at the time of the Capitol Attack now continue to bow to the Oathkeepers, Proud Boys ( Who have nothing to be proud of as far as I can see) and Three Percenters, as well as other Trump supporters who seem to be those who make up the Republican Party in America at this strange point in time.
Like the Taliban in Afghanistan the Republican Party seems to have completely become a Right Wing Supposedly Religious Movement anxious to enslave their Countrymen and Women in their Authoritarian Spirit of "We're right and everybody else is wrong". Put succinctly The Republican Party has lost its collective mind and seems truly hell bent on destroying the Concept of Democracy in America and replacing it with something similar to what we find in Dictatorships in Authoritarian led countries.
Although Donald Trump certainly made a complete mockery of our Democracy during the Four Godawful Years that he was President, he has really gone and done it now in 2022. Trump and what is left of his "Conservative Republican Party" seems to be simply focused on getting Trump back into the Presidency so that he and his henchmen and women can keep him from being prosecuted by a United States Justice Department that, unlike it was when he had complete control of DOJ, is now rightly pursuing the Ex President who has always been in his mind above the law.
Into this land of lunacy where the Republican Party seems to have completely gone off the rails and evidently are staying off the rails, has come Liz Cheney. Liz has been in the past a Republican Party Leader but because she just couldn't put her principles aside and do the Wrong Thing like so many other Republicans and spread the "Big Lie" that "Donald Trump had actually won the Presidential Election in 2020" she just lost her Congressional Primary in Wyoming to Harriet Hageman, who had been a Liz Cheney Supporter and a Donald Trump critic until she found her Republican Spiritual Awakening in a Trump Endorsement for her Congressional Campaign. Suddenly, although Ms. Hageman had no use for Trump Two years ago, she has been saved and has suddenly found God in Mara Lago.
Hageman was certainly not the only Republican Trump Critic who who found New Election Spirit in the 2022 Election. JD Vance in Ohio had made a lot of noise and became a best selling author by criticizing Donald Trump back in the day. But this year he made it clear that he had also found Jesus in Mara Lago and after getting Trump's endorsement JD also found himself caring more about Being Elected than doing the Right Thing.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that Republicans are so hell bent on Winning Elections that Principles and Truth in the Trump Republican Party are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
After Trump and his minions drive those who insist on continuing to maintain Genuine Conservative Republican Principles out of the party it is frightening to realize what we will be left with in what used to be a strongly principled two party system.
The Truth is that we just barely missed having our government being taken over by the Trump Goon Squad in January of 2021.
Although Donald Trump pressured Mike Pence unmercifully to torpedo the January Sixth Certification Pence turned out to have just enough Decency and Backbone to instead torpedo Donald Trump's plan to illegally reinstall himself into the Presidency.
Trump had other irons in the fire though.
He thought that he could strongarm the Georgia Secretary of State and Governor to magically come up with the thousands of votes Trump needed for him to win the Electoral votes in that state.
It turned out that although Brad Rafensperger and Brian Kemp were Staunch Republicans who had voted for Donald Trump themselves in the 2020 Election that they were unwilling to bow to Trump's Unspeakable Requests to "Come Up with" enough magical votes to swing the election to Trump.
Trump did find some Republicans willing to sign on as "Fake Electors" in several states but in the end the Fake Electors Scheme didn't work out and only made Law Enforcement Targets of those individuals foolish enough to sign on to that incredibly indecent scheme.
So now in addition to illegally taking Top Secret documents with him to Mara Lago and apparently refusing to give the documents back to the U.S. Archives where they belong, he is also trying his best to install people like himself to positions of responsibility in every state in the union who will, when the time comes, not be guided by principles like Pence, Raffensperger and Kemp were.
Donald Trump should never again be allowed anywhere near the White House ever again and if the January Sixth Committee and the United States Justice Department are successful in their endeavors he never will be.
But clearly Donald Trump has power aplenty in the Republican Party and he is already using it to eliminate and punish those individuals on his enemies list.
Apparently number one on that list was Liz Cheney, who did her best to alert the world and most assuredly her Republican Party to the dangers of continuing to follow the lead of Donald Trump. While Liz was successful in her role as Vice Chair of the January Sixth Committtee in the end Liz was unsuccessful in her Wyoming Primary vote to keep her seat in Congress. She was beaten by Trump Turncoat Harriet Hageman in a landslide. Liz will continue to be in Congress for the rest of 2022 and possibly beyond if she manages to run a successful Independent Campaign to retain her seat.
Although in normal times I would probably have little sympathy for Liz Cheney losing her seat in congress These are not normal times. These are in many ways Strange and Terrible Times. Liz Cheney lost badly in the Wyoming Primary Election and she pointed out that she could have easily won her election if she was willing to do what so many of her colleagues in Congress and the Republican Party chose to do, which was to Bow to King Donald and kiss up to someone who she recognized was not a King but a Criminal with no conscience whatsoever.
Liz Cheney may soon be gone from Congress and the January Sixth Committee and in fact the January Sixth Committee may itself be gone if enough Republicans are elected to the U.S. House and Senate in November of 2022.
Clearly Liz Cheney is presently giving thought to what her next move will be. She admits to thinking about a Presidential run.
At the moment, however, I think that those of us who are interested in preserving Democracy in the United States of America will be thinking hard about what Liz Cheney is going to do in the future and how her choices will affect us and will affect our Democracy.
I am sure, though, that Liz Cheney will be on the Frontlines of Preserving Democracy for the rest of her life.
Thank you, Liz for being there when we needed you and when our country needed you very badly.
I sincerely hope that the sacrifice you have made for Truth and Democracy will somehow wake up those members of the Republican Party who have become willing members of the Trump Cult.
But to tell you the truth I am not counting on that miracle happening.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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