Failed coup d’etat in the rest of the world results in plotters being imprisoned and ostracized. In America, aspirants to failed coup d’etat and dictatorship are congressmen and women, and a United States president. They now see it as a path to minority leadership – to a future of undemocratically elected Republican legislators and presidents. Where democracy is dependent on or influenced by black voters, this set of authoritarian racists see it as neither valid nor legitimate. Where an authoritarian narcissist sits in the Oval Office, he sees it as an inconvenience.
In early December, more than 120 of the 196 Republican members of the House of Representatives signed their names to a December 10, 2020 amicus brief on Thursday in support of a ludicrous Texas lawsuit filed at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to block the election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Effectively, they sought to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election by a “legal coup d’etat” and install Donald Trump in office for a second term. Call it, “Belarus coming to America.” Gaslighting the pillars of American democracy is now as American as mom’s apple pie.
Republican Coup d’Etat Plotters
The lawsuit, which the Supreme Court rejected outright Friday evening, looked to throw out the results in four states that Biden won: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Notably, the key to Biden winning those states was a heavy African American turnout. So, the wanna-be dictator’s adherents followed Trump’s lead in publicly registering their contempt for African-American voters. The courts dismissed that nuisance almost as soon as it was filed.
Filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who is likely months away from indictment for corruption, and joined by 17 other Republican state attorney generals, the lawsuit invented some “Kraken” logic to assert that there is no way that Joe Biden could have legally received over 7 million more votes than Trump. SCOTUS didn’t even give them a hearing before booting the suit as a waste of time.
But the remarkable thing is that one hundred and twenty-six Republican members of Congress signed on to the attempted “legal coup” to bring democracy to an end in America. Among them is Kevin McCarthy – the man who will be Speaker of the House should Republicans win control of the House in two years. As Trump’s Kraken team invoked the name of the long-dead Hugo Chavez as somehow having helped Joe Biden win the election, it seems that McCarthy and his bunch of merry men and women are more fit to preside over Venezuela than the United States of America.
Alabama
Rep. Gary Palmer, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Mo Brooks, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Bradley Byrne, First Congressional District
Rep. Robert Aderholt, Fourth Congressional District
Arizona
Rep. Andy Biggs, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Debbie Lesko, Eighth Congressional District
Arkansas
Rep. Rick Crawford, First Congressional District
Rep. Bruce Westerman, Fourth Congressional District
California
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, 23rd Congressional District
Rep. Ken Calvert, 42nd Congressional District
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, First Congressional District
Rep. Tom McClintock, Fourth Congressional District
Colorado
Rep. Ken Buck, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Doug Lamborn, Fifth Congressional District
Florida
Rep. Matt Gaetz, First Congressional District
Rep. Ted Yoho, Third Congressional District
Rep. Gus Bilirakis, 12th Congressional District
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, 25th Congressional District
Rep. John Rutherford, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Daniel Webster, 11th Congressional District
Rep. Michael Waltz, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Ross Spano, 15th Congressional District
Rep. Neal Dunn, Second Congressional District
Georgia
Rep. Doug Collins, Ninth Congressional District
Rep. Rick W. Allen, 12th Congressional District
Rep. Earl Carter, First Congressional District
Rep. Drew Ferguson, Third Congressional District
Rep. Austin Scott, Eighth Congressional District
Idaho
Rep. Russ Fulcher, First Congressional District
Rep. Mike Simpson, Second Congressional District
Illinois
Rep. Mike Bost, 12th Congressional District
Rep. Darin LaHood, 18th Congressional District
Indiana
Rep. James Baird, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Jim Banks, Third Congressional District
Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, Ninth Congressional District
Rep. Greg Pence, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Jackie Walorski, Second Congressional District
Iowa
Rep. Steve King, Fourth Congressional District
Kansas
Rep. Ron Estes, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Roger Marshall, First Congressional District
Louisiana
Rep. Steve Scalise, First Congressional District
Rep. Mike Johnson, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Ralph Abraham, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Clay Higgins, Third Congressional District
Maryland
Rep. Andy Harris, First Congressional District
Michigan
Rep. Jack Bergman, First Congressional District
Rep. Bill Huizenga, Second Congressional District
Rep. Tim Walberg, Seventh Congressional District
Rep. John Moolenaar, Fourth Congressional District
Minnesota
Rep. Tom Emmer, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Jim Hagedorn, First Congressional District
Mississippi
Rep. Michael Guest, Third Congressional District
Rep. Trent Kelly, First Congressional District
Missouri
Rep. Sam Graves, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Jason Smith, Eighth Congressional District
Rep. Ann Wagner, Second Congressional District
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, Third Congressional District
Montana
Rep. Greg Gianforte, at-large district
Nebraska
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, First Congressional District
Rep. Adrian Smith, Third Congressional District
New Jersey
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, Second Congressional District
New York
Rep. Elise Stefanik, 21st Congressional District
Rep. Lee Zeldin, First Congressional District
North Carolina
Rep. Dan Bishop, Ninth Congressional District
Rep. Ted Budd, 13th Congressional District
Rep. Virginia Foxx, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Richard Hudson, Eighth Congressional District
Rep. David Rouzer, Seventh Congressional District
Rep. Gregory Murphy, Third Congressional District
Ohio
Rep. Jim Jordan, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Bob Gibbs, Seventh Congressional District
Rep. Bill Johnson, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Robert E. Latta, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Second Congressional District
Oklahoma
Rep. Kevin Hern, First Congressional District
Rep. Markwayne Mullin, Second Congressional District
Pennsylvania
Rep. John Joyce, 13th Congressional District
Rep. Fred Keller, 12th Congressional District
Rep. Mike Kelly, 16th Congressional District
Rep. Dan Meuser, Ninth Congressional District
Rep. Scott Perry, 10th Congressional District
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, 14th Congressional District
Rep. Glenn Thompson, 15th Congressional District
South Carolina
Rep. Jeff Duncan, Third Congressional District
Rep. Ralph Norman, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Tom Rice, Seventh Congressional District
Rep. William Timmons, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Joe Wilson, Second Congressional District
Tennessee
Rep. Tim Burchett, Second Congressional District
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Third Congressional District
Rep. Mark Green, Seventh Congressional District
Rep. David Kustoff, Eighth Congressional District
Rep. John Rose, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, Fourth Congressional District
Texas
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Second Congressional District
Rep. Kevin Brady, Eighth Congressional District
Rep. Michael Burgess, 26th Congressional District
Rep. Michael Cloud, 27th Congressional District
Rep. Mike Conaway, 11th Congressional District
Rep. Bill Flores, 17th Congressional District
Rep. Louie Gohmert, First Congressional District
Rep. Lance Gooden, Fifth Congressional District
Rep. Kenny Marchant, 24th Congressional District
Rep. Randy Weber, 14th Congressional District
Rep. Roger Williams, 25th Congressional District
Rep. Ron Wright, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Jodey Arrington, 19th Congressional District
Rep. Brian Babin, 36th Congressional District
Virginia
Rep. Ben Cline, Sixth Congressional District
Rep. Rob Wittman, First Congressional District
Rep. H. Morgan Griffith, Ninth Congressional District
Washington
Rep. Dan Newhouse, Fourth Congressional District
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Fifth Congressional District
West Virginia
Rep. Carol Miller, Third Congressional District
Rep. Alex Mooney, Second Congressional District
Wisconsin
Rep. Tom Tiffany, Seventh Congressional District
In American politics, the third bracnch of government is reluctant to sanction members of the first and second branch, as it often does to individuals. So look for this idiocy to continue for months to come.
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