How do I hate me? Let me count the ways. I hate me to the depth and breadth and height my thoughts can reach when putting off the right, to do Its work and hasten my disgrace. 🎩 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with apologies.
It is a maxim of the law with precursors going back to Jefferson and Lincoln that
We are not in the peril of the United States with a third of them in open rebellion, and we can hold fast to the rule of law today. But Republicans have thrown all of that overboard on the pretense that the Ship of State is sinking by the doings of the ever-evil—No. You know what? I don’t have to stoop to their level, not even in rhetoric. They want to blame us for everything, but especially the loss of long-standing privilege. They want to wreak havoc, and vile, disgusting revenge, and—Oh, sorry, it keeps trying to creep up on me.
Never mind. Put aside the fear, and rage, and hate directed at us. What counts in this coming election year is what they are directing at themselves.
1 Thing—Chip Roy
For this, some of them are denouncing Roy as a RINO. This is becoming like the depths of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when everybody was denouncing everybody as a Leftist Adventurist or a Rightist Running Dog, phrases that eventually lost all meaning.