Before Donald J Trump blows a fuse and start screaming, “the report of my death is greatly exaggerated,” let me assure him, I came not to talk about his demise, and bury him – but to objurgate him for the countless lies he has been spreading over the past four years while he was in office as president.
His first lie when he took office – that his inauguration in 2017 attracted the biggest crowd in attendance in US history. Some news organizations and fact-checkers tracking statements by Trump have recorded almost thirty thousand false or misleading claims over the four years he held office.
Now, at the end of his term, after losing the elections last November, he has been advancing a series of lies that he won the election with a landslide, that Democrats stole the election from him, and there was rampant voter fraud. State elections officials denied all such claims and, after several recounts, certified election results confirming Biden – Harris victory. The courts, where Trump took his case, did not find any validity in his false claim and dismissed every one of them. Collectively, all these actions by Trump earned him the nickname, Liar in Chief.
The GOP and its future is another story.
The Republican Party, founded in the 1850s, the hallmark of conservatism in the US, saw several of its senior members have abandoned the party in the past four years, admitting they will support Biden in the 2020 presidential elections. Even after Trump supporters’ seditious act, egged on by him, forcibly entering the House and Senate chambers of Capitol Hill, some 147 republican elected officials voted to object to the certification of 2020 presidential election results. The Republican party of Abraham Lincoln lost its founding principles and appeared to have fallen under Trump’s spell.
Georgia runoff election results clearly show that Trump’s association was detrimental to the candidates and caused the GOP to lose
.two seats and a majority in the senate. Trump single-handedly engineered the Republican Party to lose the presidency and the senate.
It is clear, from the actions of the 147 Republicans who sided with Trump and voted to object to the 2020 presidential election results, they were eyeing Trump supporter bloc of 74 million voters. Texas senator Ted Cruz did not mince his words, saying democracy was in crisis in his speech, objecting to the election results being certified. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley was more direct and open, stood on Capitol Hill’s steps, gave the Trump supporter mob a fist pump salute of support, just minutes before the rioters invaded and desecrated the center of American Government.
Several Republican senators are now expressing regret for not standing up to and speaking out sooner to Trump.
Too little, too late.
The writing was on the wall from the time Trump took office with his inauguration in January 2017. He spoke of stopping American carnage! In the four years he held office, he created conditions of chaos and mayhem by his words and deeds, culminating in the events last Wednesday, which was an American carnage!
Poetic Justice? Freudian slip?
That brings me back to the question.
What is to become of the GOP as we know it?
Is Donald Trump going to walk away from the Republican Party with his 74 million supporters and form his own Trumplican Party, as some are speculating?
Did Donald Trump drive the last nail on GOP’s coffin by his actions culminating in the Capitol Hill riot by his supporters?
Time will tell..
