schmidlap
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In the end, the desperate attempt to pervert democracy and deny the People's will came down to a decent American who would not be intimidated into perpetuating the wrecking ball of Trumpery's demolition of American democracy.
With the removal of Trump by popular demand, the rankest Republican in the land?
"Oh, my! If I even entertained a fleeting notion of defending America
against Trumpery, I fear that I would tinkle in my frillies and swoon!"
For the Trumped GOP, the times, they are a'changin'!
After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, Trump finally met his match in 40-year-old Aaron Van Langevelde...
Van Langevelde is a Republican. He works for Republicans in the Statehouse. He gives legal guidance to advance Republican causes and win Republican campaigns. As a Republican, his mandate for Monday’s hearing—handed down from the state party chair, the national party chair and the president himself—was straightforward. They wanted Michigan’s board of canvassers to delay certification of Biden’s victory. Never mind that Trump lost by more than 154,000 votes, or that results were already certified in all 83 counties. The plan was to drag things out, to further muddy the election waters and delegitimize the process, to force the courts to take unprecedented actions that would forever taint Michigan’s process of certifying elections. Not because it was going to help Trump win but because it was going to help Trump cope with a loss. The president was not accepting defeat. That meant no Republican with career ambitions could accept it, either.
Which made Van Langevelde’s vote for certification all the more remarkable. With the other Republican on the four-person board, Norman Shinkle, abstaining on the final vote—a cowardly abdication of duty—the 40-year-old Van Langevelde delivered the verdict on his own. At a low point in his party’s existence, with much of the GOP’s leadership class pre-writing their own political epitaphs by empowering Trump to lay waste to the country’s foundational democratic norms, an obscure lawyer from west Michigan stood on principle. It proved to be the nail in Trump’s coffin.
The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
How a state that was never in doubt became a "national embarrassment" and a symbol of the Republican Party’s fealty to Donald Trump.www.politico.com
With the removal of Trump by popular demand, the rankest Republican in the land?
"Oh, my! If I even entertained a fleeting notion of defending America
against Trumpery, I fear that I would tinkle in my frillies and swoon!"
For the Trumped GOP, the times, they are a'changin'!