Oath Breaker

“And will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States…”

Our Constitution sets out three co-equal branches of government. The President and his enablers have called on the third branch of government, the judiciary, to evaluate their (baseless) claims of voter fraud.

The judiciary has, unequivocally, rejected those claims. But that isn’t enough for the Toddler-in-Chief. His Twitter temper tantrum isn’t over yet.

But here’s the problem. It’s not quaint anymore. It’s not simply annoying (and almost comical) anymore.

The more and more the President not only refuses to admit that he has lost, but affirmatively pleads that he won on Twitter and outside of the institutional protections built into the court system, the greater injury he is causing to this country.

The President of the United States is one step shy of calling for open rebellion because he lost an election. An uncomfortable number of his cultist supporters already are doing so. This is the behavior we expect from tinpot dictators, not the leader of the free world.

This behavior flagrantly violates the President’s oath of office. It demonstrates that he does not care about this country, his office, or the people he represents.

These are the moanings of a wounded narcissist unfit for office and undeserving of a second term in that office.

The people who continue to support this monster should take a good look in the mirror, and ask themselves whether the are actually defending democratic principles, or assisting the President with subverting them.

It’s worth noting it didn’t have to come to this. Republicans blew countless chances to reign in the Trump cult over the last four years. But now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The election is over. The failed presidency of this two-bit hustler and prolific grifter is almost over. But equally, the time for silence is over. Every, single elected official in this country should be rebuking President Trump in the strongest possible language.

More importantly, elected Republicans need to grow a pair and stand up to the lemmings following Dear Leader off the reality cliff, before they try to drag along the rest of the country for the ride.

They are threatening burning down the GOP. Let them. And perhaps, a phoenix with the principles the GOP used to stand for will rise from the ashes.