Kari, Carried Away

CARRY LAKE, whose first name is actually spelled "Kari" but is deliberately misspelled here in order to humorously and ironically refer to her failed attempt to steal and make off with an election she didn't win, seems to have run out of options, and must somehow find a way to accept the reality that she is not the governor elect of Arizona. That hasn't happened yet, and it might never happen; she plans to appeal the decision recently handed down in federal court that since she presented no evidence for any election fraud which resulted in the election being stolen from her; case dismissed. So goes the continuing saga of the Trump supporting far right insurrectionist terrorist wing of the grand old party. It may be that, Trump-like, she continues the same old prevaricating song and dance well into the future, perchance, even unto death. And so goes the Republican party, the party of insurrrection, in which more than two thirds of registered members say that the insurrection was either appropriate, didn't happen, of a false flag operation of liberal Democrats. Kari Lake's assertion that manipulated voting machines and over stuffed ballot boxes doomed her election chances and turned her victory into defeat have a familair, ominous, perfidious ring, like the propaganda "documentary" "Two Thousand Mules" by Mr. D'souza. We now know tht Trump's "big lie" was premeditated. He told his fellow criminals Roger Stone and Steve Bannon weeks before the election, when the polls strongly indicated an impending a victory for Joe Biden: "Fuck it. Whatever happeens, we'll just say that we won." Then of coruse on election night Trump made good on his word, by insisting, before half the votes had been counted, that "Actually, we won the election". Thus did Trump set the template for further right wing ignomony, a precurso to Kari Lake, and how many other efeated conservatives in years to come? Our best comfort derives from the happy fact that most of the election denying candidates were defeated in teh recent mid term elections. May all the future ones face a similar fate. May they face a worse fate than that, of being relegated to the status to which they properaly belong; that of traitors to the great American experiment of a sustainable, durable democracy, always fragile at best, made even more so by their ignomonious infamy.