Remember the quaint old days when Republicans accepted electoral defeat, and even called their Democratic opponents to concede? Or when outgoing Republican Presidents left heartfelt transition notes for incoming Democratic Presidents to find in the Resolute Desk?
Those days are no more. In fact, thanks to Benedict Donald, defeated Republican candidates are hiring felons to fire guns at victorious Democrats' homes.
That's the situation in New Mexico, where Solomon Peña, a GOP state house candidate who lost to a Democrat in a landslide in November, has been arrested, along with his hapless recruits who did the actual shooting. Democratic State Rep Miguel Garcia, Peña's opponent, "only" won the race with 73 percent of the vote. Perhaps the lopsided outcome had something to do with the fact that Peña had a criminal record and had been in jail for almost seven years.
Local law enforcement officials have made it clear that Peña was influenced by Donald Trump's claim of election fraud and conspiracy. But Benedict Donald's spokesman is highly offended, and other Republicans have, true to form, mostly been silent.
Surely they won't be able to maintain that silence, if journalists do their jobs. But what's really scary to think about is that someone is going to have to be killed before GOP leading lights are forced to comment.
The shootings in New Mexico are especially disturbing because Peña was annoyed that his henchmen weren't firing low enough to hit anybody, and they fired the shots at times of the night when the homes' occupants wouldn't be up and moving around. At some point, some MAGA fool is going to target a winning Democrat successfully — at home, at work, or, like murdered abortion provider George Tiller, at church. This terrifies us cats, and we HISS.
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