This goes way beyond Trump at this point

| 7:00 pm EDT September 22, 2023
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In the last week, we’ve seen Mitt Romney announce his retirement, along with the abrupt resignation of a House Republican from Utah, all while it’s becoming more obvious to the media that Donald Trump may be way in over his head before 2024. It’s as good a time as any to remember that our troubles won’t end with Donald Trump regardless of how the rest of 2023 plays out.

It’s become a popular sentiment among Republican voters that somehow us “mistreating” Romney a decade ago resulted in the GOP being forced to nominate Donald Trump. This is a farcical notion on its face – but think about what they’re actually saying for a minute – and it becomes worse.

Apart from asking that we just hand them the presidency to get them to stop behaving outrageously, they’re saying that they’re tired of the democratic norms that have largely held them back from their worst instincts over the last four decades. They are, in effect, playing the victim while saying the quiet part aloud and what they had planned for us all along.

This is why it’s important to remember that regardless of who the nominee is in 2024, they’ll be at least as anti-democratic as Donald Trump was in 2016, if not worse, and their policies will be just as awful for the country as his were. This is why we need to be at full force as we get ready for elections in 2023 and 2024 – to expel Republicans from all levels of power.