{"id":53669,"date":"2022-12-05T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53669"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:01:33","slug":"big-lie-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53669","title":{"rendered":"Day of reckoning for GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">There should be no doubt about it, that the Republican Party\u2019s hierarchy needs to stage a \u201ccome to Jesus\u201d meeting on an issue involving the titular head of the party \u2026 the immediate past president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has all but declared war on the Constitution, the document he once swore to defend and protect. He now believes that it is time to \u201csuspend\u201d the cherished governing document so that he can be reinstalled as POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>So far \u2014and it\u2019s still early in this game of political chicken \u2014 too many Republican honchos have remained silent on this utterly frightening call from the former POTUS. There has been hardly any direct condemnation of this kind of rhetoric. Indeed, when pressed Sunday on the \u201cThis Week\u201d TV news show, GOP Rep. Dave Joyce said he could support Trump if he is the party\u2019s nominee for president in 2024. ABC News\u2019s George Stephanopoulos pressed the congressman several times to disavow and condemn the language that came from Trump; he refused. <em>Simply astonishing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is an unacceptable world view. To say out loud that it is time to suspend the Constitution is so beyond the pale it defies any sort of logic or reason.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a chance on this good Earth that Trump will succeed? Not a chance! This idiocy, though, does fan the embers of those who continue to believe The Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election and it keeps alive the moronic view that Trump actually <em>won an election that he lost.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump needs to be chopped down and tossed into the political trash heap. The only viable means to ensure he is silenced is for the Republican Party leadership to condemn him \u2014 <em>by name!<\/em> \u2014 and turn its back on the trash he continues to sputter.<\/p>\n<p>One obstacle stands in the way. It is the collective cowardice of those who purport to cherish the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should be no doubt about it, that the Republican Party\u2019s hierarchy needs to stage a \u201ccome to Jesus\u201d meeting on an issue involving the titular head of the party \u2026 the immediate past president of the United States. Donald J. Trump has all but declared war on the Constitution, the document he once swore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day of reckoning for GOP?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9631,1424,1941,5043],"class_list":["post-53669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-big-lie","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53670,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions\/53670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}