Letter: Is Trump the end of the Republican Party?

Sauk Valley Letters to the Editor

To the editor:

Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted President Trump would be the end of the Republican Party, but I doubt he suspected it transforming itself into the Trumpublican Party. I’m also sure he never imagined Trump would threaten to be the end, death, and demise of democracy in America.

But Lindsey should have known. Trump revealed his playbook in 2016 while anticipating losing: The election was rigged. He even appointed a commission to ferret out some 3 million to 5 million illegal votes he alleged without evidence, then disbanded it when no evidence was found.

Today, his legal eagles have lost 61 of 62 state and federal court cases asserting electoral shenanigans. How rich, coming from the pot, or more accurately, the crackpot. Alice in Wonderland has nothing on Americans in Trumpland, ruled by the Mad King.

Who else but Trump could have had opposing sides convinced each other is stealing the election? Deluded Trumpublicans overwhelmingly believe Biden stole the election, while Trump’s struggling steal couldn’t have been more obvious, violating his sworn oath daily.

Trump’s attempted steal began long ago on many fronts: falsely labeling mail-in voting fraudulent, crippling mail delivery, claiming only a rigged election could defeat him, accusing big cities of chronic corrupt conduct, the usual systemic suppression of Democratic voting, and finally beseeching “his” justices to declare certain state-certified votes null and void.

It’s tough to tell if this is truly treason, or merely Trump’s treasonous viral lunacy gone pandemic. All in the name of Electoral College shenanigans, that biased, anti-democratic anachronism of the 1700s.

How puzzling and bizarrely odd that our national mantra, “one person, one vote,” applies to every election except for president. Is America really a democracy, when millions fewer voters elected President Trump, merely because of where they live?

As we wrestle with realizing our national ideals, the time has come to realize another one: one person, one vote for president, too.

John Eades

Sterling