Old Times Not Forgotten

Created
Sat, 08/06/2024 - 23:00
Updated
Sat, 08/06/2024 - 23:00
Revenge is mine The Republican Party might actually draft a platform in 2024 for the first time in eight years. And a “Stop the Steal” election denier will lead them (The New Republic): On May 15, Ed Martin, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, was hired to serve as the ​​deputy policy director of the platform committee, reported NBC News. Martin is well known for supporting Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, even giving a speech in Washington, D.C., the day before the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021 to rally Trump’s supporters. “No matter what happens tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after, we still need to be in the fight. There’s no summer soldiers and springtime patriots here. There’s the die-hard true Americans,” Martin said in that speech. “We start today, go through tomorrow and every day till we have a last breath and go home to the Lord because we will stop the steal.” Well. Echoes of Gone with the Wind. Of course, “true Americans” is a euphemism in an organization imbued with the spirit of the convicted criminal of the hour, The Man of 30,000 Lies. The New Republic adds, “Martin’s appointment suggests that 2024’s platform will include challenging the integrity of any election that Republicans lose.” Yes, but what else might that platform include? What all-American value might lie at the heart of a platform worthy of a man who thinks only of himself? ABC News offers a clue: Former…