Adoring the Constitution, Selectively

DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION there were three vacancies on the United States Supreme court, and, much to the glee of America's conservatives, he, Trump, got to fill all three vacancies. Arguably, that was the main reason many conservatives supported Trump, despite his being Trump; he may be a degenerate, but by damn, at least he'll put conservatives on the Supreme Court! that, and Donald Trump's well known refusal to kill babies. Hell, Trump hasnt been a pro choice Democrat for at least five years, if not longer. The most important quality to look for in a Supreme Court nominee, according to conventional right wing wisdom, is dedication to the literal word of the original text of the founding document; what did the authors of the constitution really mean? In order to ensure such people are placed on the court, anyone nominated for the high court must therefore be a conservative, preferrably fairly far right, none of this moderate stuff, and must be an "originalist", one who does not interpret the constutution, but reads it literally, the way the founders intended. Thus we have today's highly conservative highly irrational Supreme Court. So sacred is our perfect constituional tht no only would it be unthinkable to create and put into law a new version more in keeping with our modern world, hell, anyone who tries to interpret it rather thn merely echo the intent of its authors is......well, is a damned liberal. All this is nonsense, of course, like neally all far right wing reasoning. But, nonetheless, its what they say they believe, correct? Now flash forward to Donald Trump's recent social media statement that it might be necessary to temporarily put aside the constitution in order to avoid widespread election fraud. Trump wasn't talking about interpreting the constitutiona or not, he was talking about throwing it all out the window, to ensure his getting reelected to the presidency. The logical inference being that Trump might once again be forced to assemble a violent but patriotic mob to violently instal him in power. In response, nary a Republican spoke up. No expressions of outrage about Trump's insurrectionist remarks, no expressions of faithful defense of and devotion to the constutution, form the whole Republican party. Nothing. Suddenly, among Republicans, it becomes acceptable to threaten to throw out the U.S. Constitution, merely because it was Trump, their iconic leader, who spoke the traitorous words.