The Republican Faith has taken a strange turn.
It defies belief, but today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Bluegrass State) said on the floor of the Senate that he
controls (until January 5, when sensible voters in the Peachtree State will elect both Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon
Ossoff to the Senate) that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump on November 3 (https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/15/946686152/electoral-college-has-spoken-mcconnell-belatedly-congratulates-biden-on-win).
But Trump still has an ace in the hole (see Annie Proulx’s exceptional fourth novel, published in 2002,That Old Ace in the Hole, about cranky
Texans in the Panhandle of the Lone Star State): he’s firmly convinced that on January 6, his Lapdog-in-Chief, Mike Pence, who desperately wants to be our
Commander-in-Chief) will declare that Trump defeated Biden.
Not since LBJ was Master of the Senate (see Robert Caro’s masterful tome with that title) has a Senate Majority Leader reached such heights of power as McConnell,
the man whose single-minded pursuit of an Always Conservative Supreme Court has put hyper-conservatives Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and possible sexual predator
Brett Kavanaugh on the Court, joining Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
All people who have taken an interest in politics ever since FDR saved our once-exceptional nation from the Republican Faith (that only
Republicans know what’s best for the Privileged Rich), are keenly aware that it’s only the Party of the People who truly have the interests of all the
people in mind.
Yes, the US was exceptional until November 8, 2016, when Hillary Clinton hugely surpassed Donald Trump in the popular vote.
For unfathomable reasons, seems that some eighty million Americans didn’t vote this year (https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why).
But Australia, a more enlightened country in terms of civic duty, requires all registered voters to vote (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/world/australia/compulsory-voting.html).
Because Trump is interested only in himself, he’s just cut loose another lapdog, William Barr, who “decided" to leave Trump’s Justice Department before Christmas —
especially after he greatly incurred Trump’s wrath by announcing that there was no fraud in the election.
Question now is how Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen will be able to please Trump (https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946657248/will-jeffrey-rosen-interim-doj-leader-withstand-white-house-pressure), and, as we all know, it’s really hard to please
Trump. Ask trophy wives Ivana, Marla and 50-year old Melania — a woman far younger than 74-year old Old Goat Trump.
After he saw McConnell’s statement that Biden defeated him, Trump, with associate solitary reporter Johanna Jones glaring at him, immediately called RNC Chairlady
Ronna Romney McDaniel (Mitt’s niece) and gave her firm instructions to excommunicate McConnell from the Party of Trump (see also https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946562685/democracy-held-with-bidens-win-but-trump-is-keeping-america-divided-as-ever).