>> LEADING WITH SCIENCE OF
COURSE HAS NOT BEEN THE HALLMARK
OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
AND, IN FACT, DONALD TRUMP IS
SHRINKING IN IMPORTANCE BY THE
VERY DAY, HE’S A LAME DUCK
RAGING AGAINST HIS IMPENDING
LOSS OF POWER WHOSE LAST BEST
HOPE MAY HAVE BEEN THE SUPREME
COURT, ALTHOUGH THEY WANTED
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
REMEMBER HE WAS PRETTY EXPLICIT
ABOUT WANTING AMY CONEY BARRETT
ON THE COURT IN ORDER TO HELP
HIM STEAL THE ELECTION IF NEED
BE.
BUT TODAY NOR CONEY BARRETT OR
ANY OTHER JUSTICE WILLING TO
PLAY ALONG.
IN A ONE-SENTENCE ORDER WHICH
DID NOT SUGGEST ANY DISSENT
AMONG THE COURT’S NINE JUSTICES.
OF COURSE IT WAS AN EXTREMELY
WEAK CASE.
SO, TAKE THAT AS YOU WILL.
BUT AS TRUMP STARTS TO FADE FROM
THE SCENE AS HIS CHALLENGES GET
LAUGHED OUT OF COURT AND HIS
RHETORIC GROWS MORE AND MORE
DESPERATE AND IRRELEVANT, THE
PROBLEM HE WANTS IS ONLY COMING
INTO CLEARER FOCUS.
BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WAS ALWAYS
A PRODUCT OF THE GOP BASE, A
PERSON WHO CHANNELLED THEIR MOST
FERAL INSTINCTS IN ORDER TO GAIN
POWER.
THEY MATCHED HIS OWN FERAL
INSTINCTS.
BUT HE DIDN’T CREATE THAT BASE.
HE DIDN’T CREATE THE ENERGY
WITHIN IT.
AND AS HE HIMSELF RECEDES FROM
VIEW, RECEDES FROM OUR
ATTENTION, WE ARE SEEING JUST
HOW DEEP THE ROT IS INSIDE THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THE MODERN GOP ISN’T JUST
DETACHED FROM REALITY, MUCH OF
IT IS WILLFULLY OPPOSED TO
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND
DEMOCRACY.
AND MANY OF ITS LEADERS ARE
CONTINUING TO PURSUE DANGEROUS
DELUSIONS THAT ARE RIGHT NOW DAY
AFTER DAY, HOUR AFTER HOUR,
INDEED, MINUTE AFTER MINUTE,
GETTING PEOPLE KILLED.
IN ARIZONA THIS IS JUST A TOUR
OF REPUBLICAN ACTIVITY OVER THE
LAST FEW DAYS.
THE CHAIR OF THE STATE PARTY,
KELLY WARD WHO NOW RUNS THE
PARTY IN ARIZONA WITH THE
SUPPORT OF MANY OF HER GOP
COLLEAGUES TOLD THE STATE’S
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR TO "SHUT THE
HELL UP" AFTER HE SUGGESTED THE
ELECTION WASN’T STOLEN AND THAT
ARIZONA’S OFFICIAL TWITTER
ACCOUNT IS CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO
DIE FOR TRUMP’S CAUSE TWEETING
SOMEONE WITH A TWITTER NAME STOP
THE STEAL WHO SAID HE IS WILLING
TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR THIS FIGHT
AND ADDING, ARE YOU?
IN SOUTH DAKOTA WHERE ONE IN
EVERY 68 PEOPLE IN THE STATE
TESTED POSITIVE IN JUST THE PAST
TWO WEEKS, THAT REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR IS EFFECTIVELY IGNORING
THE VIRUS, OPTING THIS WEEKEND
TO TRAVEL TO TEXAS TO LEAVE HER
STATE TO RIDE A HORSE AND HOIST
A FLAG AT A RODEO AS IF IT’S
2019 AND THERE’S NO PANDEMIC AT
ALL.
AS IF PEOPLE AREN’T DYING BY THE
DOZEN EVERY DAY IN HER STATE, AS
IF IT DOESN’T HAVE ONE OF THE
HIGHEST PER CAPITA DEATH RATES
IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.
IN TEXAS THE REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY
GENERAL THERE WHO IS CURRENTLY
UNDER INVESTIGATION AND HAS
MULTIPLE FORMER STAFFERS FILING
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINTS ABOUT
ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.
THESE ARE FORMER DIE-HARD
CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN STAFFERS
OF HIS WHO SAY THE GUY IS NOT ON
THE LEVEL.
THAT GUY KEN PAXTON WHO YOU SEE
THERE, HE IS NOW SUING FOUR
STATES THAT DIDN’T VOTE THE WAY
HE LIKED, SEEKING TO HAVE THE
SUPREME COURT BLOCK THEM FROM
VOTING IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE,
BASICALLY TEXAS JUST SAYING TO
GEORGIA, WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN,
AND PENNSYLVANIA YOU VOTED THE
WRONG WAY, YOU DON’T GET TO VOTE
FOR PRESIDENT.
THAT’S THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF
THE TEXAS A.G.
THIS KIND OF THING IS
WIDESPREAD.
NUMEROUS STATE LEGISLATORS HAVE
CALLED ON CONGRESS TO NOT ACCEPT
THEIR OWN STATE’S ELECTORS.
64 OF THEM IN PENNSYLVANIA
WRITING A LETTER ASKING THEIR
CONGRESSIONAL ALLEGATION TO
THROW OUT THEIR OWN STATE’S
ELECTORAL VOTES.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
THOSE ARE THE SAME VOTES THAT
GOT THEM ELECTED.
IT’S THE SAME PEOPLE VOTING IN
THE SAME ELECTION THAT GETS ALL
THESE PEOPLE.
JUST TODAY REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSMAN NAMED ALEX MOONEY
SOUGHT TO CONDEMN THE HANDFUL OF
REPUBLICANS WITH THE TEMERITY THAT DONALD TRUMP LOST.
THAT DONALD TRUMP LOST.
IT’S NOT JUST BACK BOECHERS ANDE
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER KEVIN
McCARTHY.
SENATOR RON JOHNSON USED HIS
COMMITTEE INVITING AN
ANTI-VAXXER AND OTHERS WHO
REJECT MAINSTREAM SCIENCE TO
JOIN HIM IN SPEWING DANGEROUS
NONSENSE TO THE PUBLIC AS THE
PANDEMIC KILLS AND KILLS AND
KILLS SOME MORE.
>> IT’S CERTAINLY WORSE THAN THE
FLU, BUT IS IT THAT MUCH WORSE?
I THINK THE ROOT CAUSE OF OUR
PROBLEMS IS CLOSED MINDS.
>> IS IT THAT MUCH WORSE THAN
THE FLU?
IN A BAD FLU YEAR WE LOSE 60,000
PEOPLE.
WE’RE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF
300,000.
SO, YEAH, MORE THAN 2,200
AMERICANS ARE DYING OF THE VIRUS
EVERY DAY.
130 AMERICANS DIED IN JUST THE
90 MINUTES OF DISINFORMATION
THAT RON JOHNSON HOSTED ON THE
HILL TODAY.
BUT THAT’S THE THING.
ALL THOSE PEOPLE, KELLY WARD,
KEN PAXTON, RON JOHNSON, ROY
BLUNT, MITCH McCONNELL, NONE OF
THEM ARE DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT THE ISSUE.
EVERYONE WANTS TO PRETEND THAT
IT’S DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP’S THE PROBLEM, HE’S
INTIMIDATING THESE PEOPLE.
THAT’S A MISUNDERSTANDING.
THE ISSUE, THE PROBLEM IS NOT
GOING TO GO AWAY WHEN HE DOES,
AND ALSO HE’S NOT GOING TO GO
AWAY BECAUSE HE’S DONALD TRUMP.
BUT AS WE HEAD INTO THE BIDEN
ERA IN THE MIDST OF THE WORST
WINTER OF OUR LIVES, IN THE
MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC, THE
NUMBER ONE CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY RIGHT NOW IS WHAT TO
DO ABOUT THIS FACTION OF THE
COUNTRY, WHAT TO DO ABOUT A
FACTION OF THE COUNTRY THAT