A Cult Of Cowards

 

 

What more needs to be said about a party cult of Christofascist, misogynist, forced- birth, racist, anti- democracy knuckle- draggers except to continue to point out that their would- be, alternate "leaders" are a pack of liars and cowards:

With the coup-attempting former president and 2024 Republican front-runner now at 91 felony counts across four separate indictments, his pack of rivals, with few exceptions, on Tuesday remained unwilling to use that vulnerability against him.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), campaigning at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, told reporters that the latest indictment from Georgia accusing Trump of creating a “criminal enterprise” to illegally remain in office despite having lost the 2020 election reflected badly not on Trump but on the Fulton County district attorney.

“We see the legal system being weaponized against political opponents. That is un-American and unacceptable. At the end of the day, we need a better system than that,” Scott said.

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has promised to pardon Trump on any federal charges should he become president, was attacking the Georgia indictment even before it was unsealed. “Prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. presidential elections,” he said in a statement Monday night.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who has criticized Trump for putting himself “above the Constitution” but says he prefers that Trump’s fate be decided by voters, not criminal courts, said nothing at all about the new indictment after telling ABC News on Monday that he really didn’t know much about Trump’s efforts in Georgia, including his infamous phone call to election officials demanding that they “find” him enough votes to top Joe Biden’s winning total.

And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who many party donors had hoped would surge ahead of Trump only to then steadily sink in the polls since entering the race, repeated the talking points of Trump defenders as he spoke with reporters from New England.

“I think it’s an example of this criminalization of politics. I don’t think that this is something that’s good for the country,” DeSantis said...

They're so bone- deep afraid of the Malignant Loser and his cult that they're willing to humiliate and prostrate themselves in the vain hope they can somehow thread the needle and wrest the GQP nomination out of the cult leader's grip, even if he's on his way to prison.  They can't even be trusted to relate what the charges against their cult leader are really about:

In reality, neither the federal indictment on Aug. 1 nor the Georgia indictment Monday night charges Trump with pursuing recounts or legal challenges seeking to overturn his election losses or even for lying about a “stolen” election. Rather, both accuse him of conspiring to defraud voters by pressuring his own vice president to accept forged elector slates for Trump from states he had actually lost ― a scheme that morphed into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when Pence refused to go along with the original plan.

Liars, cowards, sociopaths.  Not so unlike their cult leader after all.

(Image: Scott, Pence, Malignant Loser, Bootsie, Haley, Ramaswamy / via New York Times)