Republicans Courting Repression

Calling out Marjorie Taylor Greene for stoking racist violence and circulating threats on social media is hardly repression. But calling out Liz Cheney is.

It’s always about the money when Republicans court repression. Democrats- Al Franken, Katie Hill, are recent examples- go “voluntarily.” Now Republicans who talk repression but rarely invoke it are being lobbied by corporate donors to do as corporate management in America does, “repress, punish and move on.”

But hold on, you ask, what about Trump?

Trump was useful as long as he was in power. Now he is just another failed political footnote with a looming legal liability. Not the kind of politician who can readily do corporate America’s bidding.

On the other side of the repression flip-flop is Trump nation and their praetorian Capitol thugs. It’s hard to fund people in jail and their enablers. Violating the law is bad PR.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is currently the Republican bellwether for our fragile, fractured times: media can’t predict which of Trump’s treasonous acts Sen. McConnell will condone. What we “do know” is that Mitch “doesn’t like Trump.”

But for Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene, do these ladies represent the ‘Republican Party of today?’

Really?

February 1