Republicans in Washington out of touch with Republican voters

 Roger L. Simon:

Never in my relatively long life have I seen the congressional leadership of one of our two major political parties so out of synch with their voters as the Republicans are today.

And it has come at just the worst possible moment, with the Democrats taking over the country from the media to technology to education to book publishing to canceling people to canceling free speech to reprogramming us all, virtually everywhere and in everything, in a manner reminiscent of the Communist Party of China in 1949.

Indeed, the very first legislation they are proposing in Congress institutionalizes and makes permanent, even extends, the fraudulent maneuvers in our electoral system everyone on the right has been complaining about, assuring the Democrats of perpetual victory, yet we have barely heard anything about it from the Republicans.

(You can and must read about it here. The list of proposals will make you crazy and you will want to do something about it.)

Everything is turning leftward at the speed of sound and the Republicans are standing there like court eunuchs waiting for someone to tell them what to do or, better yet, hoping to be ignored until the whole thing blows over and returns to the status quo ante.

But there will be no status quo ante. We are four-fifths of the way into a one-party state already.

Naturally, Republican voters are steaming, not the least at Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy both of whom have now stabbed Donald Trump in the front and back, making the witticism (attributed to Truman, but who knows)—“If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”—seem almost quaint.

It is the stodgy “Deep State” McConnell, it is well known, whose reelection as the senior senator from Kentucky was precarious until Trump came down to his state and campaigned for him. Some gratitude!

Now he and McCarthy tiptoe up to impeachment, McCarthy saying Trump should be censured by the House.

For what?

The “presenting complaint” (shrink talk for what the analysand first thinks is wrong with him or her) is that Trump was tardy in criticizing the Capitol break-in, the so-called “insurrection,” and should have demanded it stop earlier.

Never mind that the “insurrection” was already taking place while he was still speaking and that in that very speech he called for the protest to be peaceful.

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I think some GOP Senators are getting the message, but they all should be by now.  Republican voters oppose the impeachment of the President.  The facts being uncovered by the FBI as well as the timeline of events do not support the allegations of Pelosi and the Democrats. Biden and the left are out to destroy the country with the evils of liberalism and Republicans should be focused on fighting that and the impeachment is just one aspect of the Democrats' destructive bent.  Do not go along with any of it.  It will not get you a thing from the Democrats or their supporters and doing so will hurt you with Republicans.