In 1871, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, an English author, poet, and Oxford University mathematics professor, published the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, “Through the Looking-Glass,”
Looking glass is a somewhat old-fashioned, literary way to say "mirror." The word glass on its own can mean "mirror" too, coming from a root meaning "to shine." After Lewis Carroll's book "Through the Looking-Glass," was published in 1871, looking glass came to also mean "the opposite of what is normal or expected,"
For years, the Republican Party cut its teeth on the notion of morality, rectitude, and social rigidity. The Party, collectively, disparaged Democrats and liberals as the scalawags of society, while elevating the denizens of the Grand Old Party to the upper rungs of truth, justice, and the American way.
My, how the tables have turned. In 2016, Donald Trump emerged as the singular galvanizing force in the GOP. Trump, in laying claim to that august status, was the beneficiary of the party anointing him after he openly boasted of grabbing women by the genitals, asserted that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any votes, suggested Mexican immigrants were rapists and murderers, proposed building a wall, banning Muslims, ditching NATO, and articulated an inclination to believe Vladimir Putin, rather than his own intelligence apparatus.
After adding a couple of impeachments, Mr. Trump has now been indicted in four separate jurisdictions, New York (34 charges), Washington, DC (4 charges), Florida (40 charges), and Georgia (13 charges), totaling 91 charges. Still, many GOP House Members, countless other Republican elected officials, and millions of GOP voters stand solidly behind Trump. Perhaps the greatest slice of irony rises from the ash heap of Trump and 18 others, including Rudy Giuliani, were charged under Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), a law the Mr. Giuliani used to great advantage as a prosecutor in New York. A few days ago, Mr. Trump suggested that he needed one more indictment to secure the (GOP) nomination. Welp, he got what he appeared to be implying he wanted. I guess, in his estimation, it’s winning time.
Many of them proffer arguments ranging from the cases stem from a Biden Administration run amok, trampling the rights and legal protections of Republicans in general, and of Trump, in particular. They make this argument even though:
Local grand juries, not Biden, agreed to each of the indictments.
Over 60 courts, including the Supreme Court, rejected Trump’s stolen election arguments.
Trump, as with the “grab ‘em by the genitals” remark, was caught on tape asking a fellow Republican to find 11, 780 votes.
With 91 charges, there is obviously, so much more. But the current composite evidence alone, is enough to validate the title, ”The Contemporary GOP: Through the Looking-Glass!”
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