For the Red Hat-wearing crowd, words have never had any meaning.

It’s been over a month since I have posted. There are a lot of reasons for that. For one thing, it’s been a busy time for me personally, working some irregular hours and also doing looking for a new place to live. The other and more predominant reason is that I wanted to take some time to enjoy the fact that the United States of America has a normal President again, who speaks in the words a President should use and, unlike his predecessor, is not seeking to destroy the fabric of the whining states of America.

I also watched with great sadness as 43 Republicans, who had been presented with clear cut evidence of treason and incitement to sedition, continued to side with the orange monster – even though they knew that their endorsement of treason would set a bad precedent in the years to come. We should be clear on the subject; a clear majority of the Senate voted to condemn the former president as an insurrectionist against the United States. However, it was not enough to accomplish what was needed, however, which was a firm vote to debar the worthless fat coward from ever seeking or holding public office in the United States again. And without that, Trump remains every bit as dangerous to the soul of this country as he was when he came down the escalator some 6 years ago.

David Frum seems to think that even in an acquittal, Trump’s second impeachment has left a mark. I am inclined to disagree as subsequent events have proven what a firm hold this disgustingly grotesque man holds on the Republican party and 30% of the American people.

Do you say that you are disappointed? That a mere rebuke was not enough? That justice was not done? It wasn’t. But now see the world from the other side, through the eyes of those who defend Trump or even want him to run again. Their hope was to dismiss this impeachment as partisan, as founded on fake evidence, as hypocritical and anti-constitutional—to present this verdict as an act of oppression by one half of the country against the other. That hope was banished today.

It’s not half against half. It’s a clear American majority—including a sizable part of the Republican Senate caucus—against a minority. And even many of the senators who voted to acquit went on record to condemn Trump as an outlaw and a seditionist.

One point Frum makes, and I hope it comes to pass soon, is that the path is now open for Trump to be tried criminally and civilly for his many misdeeds and blatant corruption. The Supreme Court offered a glimmer of that hope when it allowed his tax records to be turned over to the District Attorney for New York. I can only hope that a massive criminal indictment of Trump will come soon. However, it may not because I am firmly convinced that prosecutors know they will get only one shot at putting the orange baby man behind bars – and they have to get it right.

However bright that hope may have appeared a week ago, one has only to look at the current Republican festival of worshipping the Golden Calf to know that the political sickness that has gripped US politics is far from cured.

If only there were some sacred text, one most people at CPAC claimed allegiance to, that very explicitly warns against making golden idols. pic.twitter.com/ViEjjvphSZ

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 26, 2021

Until the rest of the country gets serious about smothering this blight on our nation to death, we will continue to have to fight off the insanity of our 21st Century Afrikaners.

Charles Pierce described it well:

I have attended three CPAC conferences in my life and I have regretted every damn one of them. All of them preceded the rise of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, but all of them gave me a good inside look at the braindead and bullying politics that made him not possible, but inevitable. The first one was in Washington, and there was an Occupy presence on the sidewalk outside, and Andrew Breitbart, sockless drunk and waving a wineglass, jumped in the middle of them and started screaming, “STOP RAPING PEOPLE!” over and over again. For all the current attempts by Respectable Republicans to distance themselves from this carnival of souls, this has been the conservative mainstream for decades. It was impossible for a Republican politician with plans for the future to skip it. (On my TeeVee this afternoon, Matthew Dowd confessed that what’s happened to his party might make him weep.) Quite simply, if you speak at CPAC, you are with the seditionists.

Loki needs to pay all of these people a visit.

As I see it, the problem is that the level of insanity is high – there is a large temptation to dismiss it as just stupid people. I know I have that idea sometimes. However, as I told a friend, we dismiss the insanity at our peril. These people are dangerous, and as long as they are committed to the Big Lie, they threaten our democracy.

So am I.

There is only one way to deal with fascism, terrorism, authoritariaism, coups, what Americans call “sedition.”

Zero tolerance.

America needs to break the back of this fascist movement, now, severely — or it will pay an even more severe price in years and decades to come. A price in violence, rage, blood, and unrest. The highest of prices. No, I’m not kidding — and though you might feel a chill, I think you know it, too. It’s us or them.

There must be no quarter given to forces like Trumpists. There never should’ve been in the first place, but I digress.

Rolling back the tide of devotion to this psychopath is going to be a long hard slog. And voting to acquit the orange monster was not a good start.