Republican voters fleeing the party in Chester County

Now that the Republican party has cancelled Liz Cheney, just like they cancel anyone who doesn’t bow to the embarrassment that is our former President, we see the Republican party for what it is. This is a party obsessed with Satan-worshipping pedophiles. A party of Trump, Qanon and white supremacists; conspiracy-loving supporters of a deadly insurrection who kill police but hide behind phrases that Blue Lives Matter...unlike their victims perhaps?

The character who best seems to represent the Republican party is Marjorie Taylor Greene, the member of Congress who most echoes Trump’s extremism and rhetoric. It is a party that includes a Sedition Caucus that saw the insurrection as little more than a group of overzealous tourists casually strolling “in an orderly fashion” through the Capitol Building...brutally attacking police officers.

I’ve been writing letters to the Daily Local for many years now, trying to convince moderate Chester County Republicans that their party no longer represents their values and that their old party is run by far-right extremists who either want to overthrow the government or continue to coddle the the corporate elite and benefit the 1 percent, the billionaire donor class, who prop up the Republican campaigns to their own benefit. Regardless of the unlikely event any of my letters have had any impact, I realize now there was little need to write them, given that the party itself makes my point over and over.

It’s no wonder that so many Chester County voters have been fleeing their old party and switching either to Independent or more often to a Democratic party who think the wealthiest, the most fortunate among us, should again begin to pay their share to help rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that has left our country behind so many others, particularly our greatest international competition.

And if there was any question that Biden and the Democrats are on the right track, ask the Republicans who, after voting against the recently passed American Rescue Plan, keep going back to their constituents to talk about all the wonderful things the bill has done, is doing and will continue to do to, well, make our country great again.

The Republican Party is in the midst of the worst run that any party has endured — across American history — in the popular vote of presidential elections, having lost seven of the past eight. Just 23 percent of registered voters think the Republican Party is going in the right direction, while 63 percent say the party is on the wrong track.

The last time the Republicans wrecked the economy and Democrats cleaned it up, it took longer than two years. This time, the Republicans have once again left a mess. Polls put support for Biden’s current bill at almost 70 percent. How much more out of touch can the Republicans be?

But I have advice for Liz Cheney that will get the rest of the far-right extremists that run her party to support her. She should merely declare the recent vote to eject her a fake election, that the vote against her was rigged, her opponent cheated and that she is in fact the rightful new majority leader of the House. That’s a message that apparently would resonate with the vast majority of the dwindling Trumplican party.