After a merciless 2020, excepting 3 Nov., things are looking up. President-elect Joe Biden is proposing strong measures to competently distribute the covid vaccine, reverse an economic slide and relieve widespread suffering; the Grim Reaper has been scythed to appropriate size; in three days the Toddler King will be relegated to Floridian swamp of Mar-a-Lago, awaiting — again — bankruptcy, as well as depositions and courtrooms; the United States is ending its love affair with savage dictators and rejoining the civilized world.
These are merely a few of our national benefactions in the wake of a bad, bad year. And coequal among them is the looming, further disintegration of the Republican Party. Its future electoral prospects have taken on a McConnellesque hue; i.e., the party's prognosis is looking grimmer every day. Odes to joy.
In South Dakota, at the pointed behest of their heartthrob, Sen. John Thune is a 2022 primary target for frothing Trumpeteers; his unforgivable sin, suggesting that Trump bears some responsibility for the insurrection he irresponsibly incited.
In Wyoming, same for Rep. Liz Cheney. The state's Trump-adoring natives are furious with her and fanatical House Republicans are gunning for her. Should they strip Cheney of the Republican conference chair "it could encourage primary challenges against other Republicans who supported impeachment or censure," such as Michigan Reps. Peter Meijer and Fred Upton, and New York's John Katko, muses the Times.
Arizona Republicans are wanting to censure their governor, Doug Ducey, who was their best but now vulnerable shot at a Senate seat next year. In Georgia, the frothers are rolling out the artillery against Gov. Brian Kemp, thus creating an even more favorable position for Stacey Abrams.
In Colorado, Arizona and Georgia, possible primary sights are being set, respectively, by the rabid conspiracy-theorizing U.S. representatives Lauren Boebert, Andy Biggs and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who announced last week her intention to file impeachment articles against President Biden.
And every other crackpot wanting to primary a GOP establishmentarian will receive a hearty endorsement from the Toddler King himself, possibly from a jail cell.
How effective, in the promise of primary debacles, could those endorsements of gadflying losers be? A Washington Post-ABC news poll finds that among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 66 percent believe there is "solid evidence of widespread fraud" in Nov.'s election. The base is unyieldingly Trumpian, Trump is the party — and, except in the very reddest of regions, both are insanely indicative of a self-annihilating GOP.
Yes, things are looking up.