How will it end?

Questionably sane congressman from Texas, Louie Gohmert, apparently in the throes of a psychotic break, filed a ridiculous lawsuit aimed at getting a federal judge to order Vice President Mike Pence to turn his entirely ceremonial role on January 6 into an autocratic power grab by overturning Joe Biden’s legitimate victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

The ever-increasing lunacy of Trump sycophants is unnerving. Particularly when politicians who undoubtedly know better enter the fray. Josh Hawley, a bright young senator from Missouri, announced yesterday that he would stand to object to validating Biden’s victory Wednesday, prompting potential chaos at a ceremony designed to put a procedural punctuation mark on a presidential election.

Hawley’s justification for his objection is spurious at best. “You’ve got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn’t matter,” Hawley declared. This Stanford/ Yale educated lawyer wants to convince us that voting for a losing candidate results in disenfranchisement? Not a cogent, well thought out argument.

Obviously, the very nature of elections involves a winner and a loser. Well-adjusted folks have accepted that inevitability since elections began. Especially when there is virtually no evidence to support election fraud or corruption.

One has to wonder what would cause an educated man like Hawley to be subsumed into such tangled, sore loser thinking. Who could be setting such an undemocratic example? The cancer consuming the Republican Party is Donald Trump. And despite the grandstanding efforts of King Trump and his loyal subjects, he will be little more than a feckless blowhard as a new president takes the reins. Question is, will Hawley and his kind wake up? Or will they continue to follow a loser?

Jarold Wright

Santa Rosa