Why I No Longer Trust Republicans

 Call it hypocrisy.

Call it projection. 

When the Republicans rant and rave about Democrats taking away guns, it is because they plan on taking away rights - like a woman's right to choose her pregnancies, like a right to privacy.

When the Republicans declaim about Democrats will make the public unsafe by defunding the police, it is because they plan on defunding law enforcement to protect themselves.

How the Freedom Caucus Hopes to Defund the Police 

 On August 5, 2022, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) publicly called for use of the Holman Rule to “start defunding some of these bad agencies—the FBI, the DOJ.” Biggs’s desire to defund the FBI and the Justice Department was echoed by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and others. Notably, the Freedom Caucus letter to McCarthy that demanded reinstatement of the Holman Rule was led by Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.), a major figure in the plot to overturn the 2020 election results. (You might recall that his cell phone was seized last summer by the FBI.)

It is not a coincidence that the people seeking to defund the FBI and the Justice Department are people who were heavily involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 election, which has since become the subject of the largest criminal investigation in American history. Most of those named above requested presidential pardons from Donald Trump, and they have consistently been some of his most zealous allies in seeking to use their power to silence, intimidate, and punish his enemies.

It is this fringe element, which tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election, that now hopes to extend the same chaos and nihilism to the rest of the federal government. The irony should not be lost on anyone that those plotting to defund law enforcement were previously some of the loudest critics of calls to “defund the police.” Today, instead of “backing the blue,” they hope to defund the federal police to shield Donald Trump from investigation.

And what does this say about the millions who voted for them? I am thinking along of lines of them not caring what the Republicans do so long as they, too, can feather their nests. As for the country they do not care, the only country they recognize is themselves.

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