Big decision last night by the Colorado Supreme Court to keep Benedict Donald off the 2024 Republican primary ballot. Political punditheads and legal scholars were consumed today with What It All Meant. We cats aren't Constitutional experts — but we think the 14th Amendment is pretty clear. So do a lot of conservative dudes.
Meanwhile, Republicans are rushing to Trump's defense, even though it's been suggested that the Colorado decision, surely moving to the US Supreme Court, gives them an off-ramp from Donaldmania. In reality, though, there is no off-ramp. The party base will bolt if they don't keep compromising their principles, so implosion, here we come.
Republicans' arguments for Trump are hilarious, and devoid of all logic. Courts shouldn't be deciding questions like this, they bleat — but they were perfectly happy to accept the 5-4 SCOTUS decision in Bush v. Gore in 2000. And if "that decision should be made at the ballot box," well, why they have rejected the obvious will of 81 million Americans in 2020, when Biden received seven million more votes than Trump? Never mind the fact that none of this would be happening if Republican Senators had simply taken the opportunity to convict Donald in his second impeachment trial in 2021, and forbidden him future office.
The GOP and the MAGAts have rejected all avenues and all solutions. What the MAGAts really want is a dictatorship, and the Republican establishment is too cowed not to go along. It's just going to be up to us to crush Trump again in 2024 — whether he's the Republican nominee or running as a third-party spoiler. (And in the latter case, we need to crush whoever is the hapless compromise nominee the GOP ends up picking, too.) So check your voter registrations, folks, and start gearing up — we've got work to do. American democracy is better than all these traitorous louts. We cats PURR.
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