Sedition

The losing president's last desperate effort to game the American constitutional system has failed, though it's a sign of how far his demonic influence has spread that anyone thought it could - or should - work. And by "anyone" I mean the majority of House Republicans, the majority of Republican state attorney generals and the feckless mob of silent Republican Senators. (Or maybe they didn't think it would work, are just feeding their voraciously norm-devouring king, but the damage is the same.) A brief for the State of Pennsylvania, arguing against the vile and frivolous Texas suit, urged: “The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.” The signal has been been sent (though unhinged Alito and craven Thomas tried to leave the door ajar), but it is shocking how widely shared the seditious intent has proved. What was once a Grand Old Party is now clearly an enemy not only of decency but of democracy itself. Scary.