As Donald Trump’s World Continues to Turn – Around Him

I have no idea if Donald Trump really thinks he didn’t lose the presidential election.  But then I generally have no idea what President Trump is thinking about anything.  And he will be gone in seventeen days (even if he doesn’t think so), so I don’t have to worry about him too much longer (– I hope).  What is worse (at least for me) are the Republican politicians who are continuing to lend support to President Trump’s claims that he really won the election – even after the Electoral College met on December 14.  (I would have preferred if they had done it before December 14, but continuing to deny Joe Biden’s victory after that date is appalling.  I wrote here about what a better person did 60 years ago where there was real evidence of fraud.)

It now appears that Missouri Senator Josh Hawley will support claims by several House Republicans challenging one or more state’s electoral votes when the House and Senate meet for the counting of electoral votes on January 6.  Obviously, Democrats did this to President George W. Bush in January of 2005 with respect to Ohio’s electoral votes (even though President Bush won Ohio by over 100,000 votes).   Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California supported claims by Democrats in the House.  It wound up delaying the counting of the electoral votes by a couple of hours, but that was all – other than maybe setting a bit of a precedent for what supporters of President Trump are doing today.  (John Kerry did not support the effort to overturn or reject Ohio’s electoral votes.  He was a classier guy.)

I don’t know if Senator Hawley is doing this because he believes the election was stolen or because he is playing up to supporters of President Trump in case Senator Hawley runs for president in 2024.  It doesn’t matter.  My view of Senator Hawley is about the same either way.  The real question is how many Republicans representatives and senators will support President Trump’s attempt on January 6.

I started giving contributions to the Republican National Committee in 1979.  I remember being proud of the fact my membership card showed a starting date of 1979 when the RNC ran an ad showing a membership card for Ronald Reagan with a starting date of 1980.  I kept giving to the RNC even after President Trump was nominated – and elected – because I saw my contribution as going to the Republican National Committee, not the Donald Trump National Committee.  I cut my contribution to $25 in 2018 because the RNC was becoming too much of a DTNC.  That was the last contribution.  I might have started to give again once President Trump left office, but with people like Senator Hawley around, who knows.  If his approach is the future of the Republican Party, it looks like it may be without my contributions.