GOP now a zombie party

One of the saddest pictures in American history was snapped yesterday, the anniversary of then President Trump’s inspired and supported but failed coup at the Capitol.

House Democrats held a pro forma session to commemorate the January 6, 2021 insurrection, an infinitely more existential threat to American democracy than either December 7 or September 11.

The picture showed a lone Republican legislator, Rep. Liz Cheney, accompanied by her father Dick, sitting in the first row of an otherwise empty GOP House side. Liz Cheney represents one of only two active Republicans (Adam Kinzinger, the other), who hasn’t died, at least in their souls, over their party’s attempted coup to destroy American democracy.

But their service will be short lived. Both are being pushed out by the now zombie Republican Party, which allows only folks with dead souls to serve in Congress, even run for president. Kinzinger is already gone, banished from any chance for re-election from his Northern Illinois district by the zombies who now vet the candidates. Cheney fights on, serving on the House committee investigating the failed coup. That garners her a zombie led effort to defeat her this November in what should have been one of the safest GOP incumbent seats.

The remaining GOP legislators and their sycophantic followers are all dead to me and, I suspect, every decent American who values American democracy. A year on they’re all going thru the motions of being living, breathing human patriots. But their appearances are deceiving. They are all just zombies, relentlessly moving in lockstep to overturn the will of the truly living Americans who still believe their vote counts. Their goal is simple: The Zombie States of America.