Why stop at the young black representatives? The Tennessee House has set a new prescient. If they can expel representatives they disagree with, then why not expel every Democrat? They can continuously expel Democrats as they are replaced. Just turn the Tennessee house floor into a never-ending expulsion ceremony. The egg has been cracked. Expel all the Democrats! It’s what the GOP wants to do, right?
While we’re at it, let’s toss out the medicine. All of it.
As we are seeing this week, the GOP is keen to set new precedents almost every day. They want to ban common, safe medications. Signaling a desire to effectively ban abortion nationwide by taking mifepristone off the market, the GOP is desperately trying to set a new precedent that any medication can be criminalized. So do it! Ban other life-saving medications. Start with insulin. Block the sale of chemotherapy drugs. Stop the sale of vaccines. The egg has been cracked. Ban all the meds!
And they want to prevent medications from being mailed to people. They are testing a dormant ‘zombie law,’ the Comstock Act, to see if it can prevent the shipment of drugs directly to consumers. It will likely fail, but it shows just how committed the GOP is to ruining everything for everyone.
And what’s the reason again? We made a black man president in 2009? We now respect queer people? We acknowledge that women and brown people have some rights? The GOP is waging a violent war against modernity and is taking down the nation with them.
All of this. All of these authoritarian actions by the GOP, are destabilizing our republic. It’s falling apart. The GOP, unable to win a national election, has decided to burn the Republic down and give their rich sponsors and friends an opportunity to plunder for a couple more generations while it burns.