Four Years

(Shoveling snow at the site of the riot. Credit: USA Today)

In yet another devastating blow to the MAGA movement that continually seeks to paint itself as the party of law and order and the "woke lib'rals" as a violent force, Donald Trump's win in the 2024 election has been certified without a hitch. Turns out it's surprisingly easy to not storm the Capitol, not assault officers, and not threaten to hang the Vice President. Perhaps if it was that easy, the fault lies with the movement that considers anything opposed to it a conspiracy. Just a suggestion.

If it sounds to you like I have little respect for the modern right, it's because I do. I believe in respect until disrespect is earned, and the events of January 6, 2021 are one of a long line of things that discourage me from speaking kindly of the most dangerous modern cult. Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that it was a "day of love" and things of this nature. I can think of very few "days of love" that caused such trauma that four Capitol officers killed themselves in the following days (four people that the conservative media doesn't want you to know about, because their deaths are inconvenient to their narrative). The right has spent the last four years pretending this violence doesn't exist, and somehow they managed to sucker a majority of the American people into forgetting about it. If America was still a country deserving of good leaders, Donald Trump would have been run out of the country on a rail. Instead, he'll pardon himself and all of the January 6 prisoners, while using the justice system against all of those he feels have wronged him. Add Lady Justice to the long list of women that Donald Trump has violated.

I don't respect the modern left very much (I believe wokeness is as much of a joke as anti-wokeness is a grift). But, looking at the events of four years ago versus the events of today, there is little doubt at all as to which side is the more civil of the two. The modern right is deeply and inherently corrupt, violent, and blind to the many sins of their golden calf. There is no viable path forward until Donald Trump is out of the picture, either hiding from the police in another country or six feet under (which I can only pray will not be a result of him reaping the political violence he has sown). Until then, the Republican party has not an ounce of my respect or consideration on the ballot.

Here's to four more years, everyone. Heaven help us all.