Okay, there is no reason to even pretend to be civil about this. This is the type of thing that one expects from House Republicans at this point. More importantly, there is a meme developing tonight through various tweets about the swearing-in of our new Justice, that one shouldn’t be expected to govern with civility or by compromise with a group that has taken pride in never doing so for at least twenty years. If one were to list the Democrats’ biggest sins over the last 20 years it would be the failure to realize that the Republicans had left “real government” behind and went straight ahead with dictatorship – to the extent allowed under any reading of the constitution – to ensure that government by minority became a permanent reality. (The senators that vote against Barrett this evening represent 13 million more people than those who voted for Barrett, this is called government by a minority).

But there is also a “meanness to it” a purely vindictive hatred to it that makes it all that much more difficult to understand. Can someone explain the need for this, or the rationality behind this, or even the grown-up aspect of this?

Remember the below when you hear their screams for mercy and calls for civility and no-partisanship. Make the Republicans/ @gop gag on the tyranny of the majority for a thousand generations. Bookmark this tweet. https://t.co/bcnHxsguMK

— Stephen Bates (@batess) October 27, 2020

Happy Birthday, Hillary Clinton – they are still obsessed with hatred for her. They hate everything about us. I have written over and over that you should have no doubt, they see you – my progressive friends – as an enemy far more dangerous than Chinese communists, nuclear weapon building North Koreans, all of them. YOU are the real enemy.

There is some good news, it would seem that the Democrats are learning their lessons:

2/ https://t.co/342INRTbXe

— Stephen Bates (@batess) October 27, 2020

As we said, this is no longer possible, and it doesn’t bode well for democracy. Ironically, this was Vladimir Putin’s goal all along. And which side did he support to get that done?

3/ @FPWellman https://t.co/9cnhfmFlF4

— Stephen Bates (@batess) October 27, 2020

It is no way to lead a country. There are two possibilities we face in the next two weeks and this really isn’t hyperbole. The GOP loses in a landslide. Trump goes down and the GOP loses the Senate by a couple of seats (a real signal), while the House gains some Democratic seats. It basically destroys the GOP and they have to reform somehow under some other name or method of operation, or the opposite happens and democracy gets further chipped away, to the point where no one can even count upon Trump respecting the two-term portion of the constitution.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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