The Rightwing Haters’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
It has been a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week for rightwing haters in the United States.
After having dined before Thanksgiving with a vehement antisemite and a full-frontal Nazi, of whom the former president* reportedly said, “I really like this guy. He gets me,” TFG came out for terminating the Constitution and making himself dictator. A few “Republican” officeholders disagreed, but indicated they would still vote for him for president if he is their party’s 2024 nominee.
On Monday, a New York jury found the Trump Organization guilty on all seventeen counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes.
A week after a DC jury found Oath Keeper gang leaders guilty of seditious conspiracy, establishing that such a conspiracy existed, on Tuesday, January 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson indicated that the committee will make criminal referrals, presumably including the former president*, to the Justice Department. That evening, as Georgia voters were giving thumbs down to his handpicked and totally incompetent US Senate candidate Herschel Walker, the wannabe Führer posed for a thumbs-up photo with QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy fantasist Liz Crokin.
Thursday began with the wonderful news that Brittney Griner, who had been jailed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Griner’s wife, Cherelle, was joyous with President Biden at a White House announcement of the release. In total contrast, the rightwing was outraged, charging that “a Black, gay athlete who has been vocal about police brutality and racial justice” is “unworthy of rescue by the Biden administration.”
Here’s the thing: If a straight white male Republican being unjustly imprisoned by Putin was released, Democrats and progressives, being patriotic Americans, would cheer. (Okay, maybe not if the prisoner was a traitor to the United States who was a stooge for Putin. Maybe we would think that he should be left in the gulag.)
Then the House passed and sent to President Biden to sign into law the Respect for Marriage Act, prohibiting “states from denying the validity of an out-of-state marriage based on sex, race or ethnicity.” Racial intermarriage and what can be termed sexual intramarriage will now be protected from rightwing assaults from the Supreme Court.
For patriotic Americans who believe in freedom and equal rights, it was a Wonderful, Beautiful, Excellent, Very Good Week.