Out-Trumping Trumpers

AMERICANS SHOULD PROBABLY simply accept the reality that election season is never ending; and maybe that's a good thing, our best and only way of preserving democracy in America. Already the midterm campaign season is upon us, with gangs of manic, extremist Republicans swarming and seeking office in primary campaigns all across our beloved fruited plain, the blessed land of liberty. A lingering, pertinent question for Republicans is: is Trump still the man, or is it time to move on? In the great state of Ohio, which Trump won easily twice, a bevy of hard charging Republicans is competing in the primary for the party's nomination to run for U.S Senate; the eventual Republican candidate seems destined to get elected. If this campaign is any indication, which it most certainly is, Trump is still the man. What they are arguing about is which of them is the most like Trump, which of them most strongly supports the former president, and so forth. There will inevitably be a growing contest within Republican America over whether to keep or replace Trump; it will become fractious, heated, fun to watch. At one point all of the Republican Senatorial candidates in Ohio were together in the same room,, answering questions, and a journalist asked them all: does anybody here think that its time for Trump to stop talking about the 2020 election, and move on? Out of the group of several, one dude and one dude only raised his hand - the one who is in last place, the rest evidently being content to continue arguing about the last election, content to continue to make their outrageously false claim that it was stolen from Trump. Conclusion: Trump still has a formidable support base, and as of now seems as capable as anyone else, if not more so, of getting elected president in 2024. Meanwhile, half a continent away, the second trial of a January 6th insurrenctionist concluded with a conviction on one criminal count, an exoneration on another. Sentencing will occur later this spring. The convicted criminal says that he wears his participation in the insurrection and his conviction for it like a badge of honor. Yes, he would do it all over again...There is a ceratin alarming overtone to that, and it makes one wonder how widespread this attitude is; among not only the participants in the insurrection, but Trump supporters generally, among Republicans, and among evangelical Christian conservativs generally. How many Americans still insist that Trump won the election, and still believe that the insurrrection was a noble attempt to restore justice, and that justice must be restored sooner rather than later, by any means necessary, including reinstalling Trump as president; by any means necessary? Plenty, likely. One is one more than we need. That's why this crazy movement known as the Republican party, as pro-Trump American evangelical conservatism, whatever you want to call it...must be defeated.