The sick legacy of trump haunts the GOP

[Dave Grubb]

In Arizona the State GOP voted to censure three prominent members for insufficient worship of trump.

Arizona Republicans passed resolutions on Saturday to censure three of the state's most prominent party leaders who have found themselves at odds with former President Donald Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey; former Sen. Jeff Flake; and Cindy McCain, widow of the longtime Sen. John McCain.

The sweeping — yet essentially symbolic — rebuke took place during a meeting to figure out how to move forward after the state flipped blue in November, narrowly giving its 11 electoral votes to now President Joe Biden.

McCain and Flake, both of whom endorsed Biden for president, were censured for their outspoken opposition to Trump and for their support of globalist interests, according to state GOP members.

In condemning Ducey, the party cited the governor's decision to enact emergency orders during the pandemic that the committee said are unconstitutional and "restrict personal liberties."

This is not the GOP that I long supported. I never imagined, that to be a member in good standing, required a loyalty oath to a despot. May their myopic view of the world tainted by the window of trump sickness be their demise.

Then---moving closer to home but with no less shame, there is Rep Scott Perry who played a pivotal role in introducing trump to Jeffery Clark--a trump loyalist imbedded in the DOJ and hatching the plan to oust Acting AG Jeffery Rosen and then appoint Clark as acting AG and bring the power of the DOJ to bear on Georgia election officials to overturn trump's loss in Georgia.

This same problem has infected the Federal Government in a much broader sense than demonstrated by Jeffery Clark. Over four years trump and his lackeys have appointed and promoted countless people based not on ability but on sworn loyalty to trump. They are now widely spread and often unknown, but no less damaging.

I, at some level of my being, feel a touch of sympathy. How sad it must be to realize and admit to yourself that your own abilities and hard work are incapable of yielding your own career ambitions and your only choice is to prostitute any measure of character and tie yourself to a disgusting despot.

Biden's challenge will be to find them and root them out---the only way they will leave on their own is if they find new chances to whore themselves.