As the legal noose tightens around the president and his cohorts, it seems like
a good moment to remember some recent history.
Our precious democracy
was (and by all accounts, continues to be) attacked by hostile
powers. Especially of concern, is our voting system (one of the
foundations of free and fair elections in a democratic republic). At
least one of the hostile powers was an external agent called Russia.
The other hostile power was the Republican Party. Through a
well-thought-out and concerted effort to inhibit voting by persons
they believed to be opposed to their agenda, Republicans became an
internal threat to our democracy.
One needs
only to observe the public reports of their behavior before, during,
and after the recent elections. Under the guise of protecting us from
voter fraud (supposedly undocumented alien residents purposely voting
illegally by their milliions) Republicans brazenly attempted (and
arguably succeeded) to tilt the elections in their favor. They used
gerrymandering and every form of voter suppression they could bring
to bear. The only reasonable inference one could draw is, these people
were convinced they could not win on their ideas and were willing to
employ any tactic ( no matter how unfair, unconstitutional, or
mean-spirited) to insure their victory. The fact that they were
funded by hugely wealthy autocrats also contributed to the travesty.
Were that not
a sufficiently horrifying set of circumstances, these hostile powers
(both internal and external) appear to be shameless and persistent in
their Machiavellian efforts to undo centuries of effort to create a
more perfect union.
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