The leader of the insurrection that overthrew the House speaker in Washington this year escaped charges of trafficking a teenager for sexual exploitation. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, was a companion of former servant Joel Greenberg, who has now been sentenced to 11 years in prison for several crimes, including transporting and paying a 17yearold girl to have sex with him and his friends.
Greenberg was only arrested because Gaetz was already under investigation and he decided to cooperate with prosecutors. As part of the plea deal, he would have described ordeals that he had promoted with the deputy in Orlando.
In the end, issues with the credibility of potential witnesses among the women led the Justice Department to decide not to indict — sorry for the dismissal — the depraved Trumpist.
Among the strong contenders for the position of thirdstrongest elected politician in the US is prominent racist Steve Scalise, who in the past has described himself as “David Duke without the baggage” in reference to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who emerged in the 1980s Louisiana, the state he represents in Washington, was elected state representative.
Another House presidential candidate is being accused by six former Olympic wrestlers he coached at Ohio State University of helping cover up rapes and sex crimes by a sports doctor against more than 170 students over 20 years. Degenerate Congressman Jim Jordan denies knowing about the crimes of Richard Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005. Jordan’s omission will soon be featured in a documentary HBO purchased from George Clooney’s production company.
The American twoparty system not only fails to reflect the evolution of voters, but it also collapses because only one party is interested in governing. The Republican Party has been reduced to a cult dominated by suicidal followers of Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, the old cliché “When the US gets the flu, the rest of the continent gets pneumonia” still holds true, even in a world that is no longer bipolar like that of the Cold War. The fate of the war in Ukraine and perhaps the power of nuclear dictatorships like Russia to invade and destroy democracies abroad is also passing through the Capitol, where the Trumpist sect supports Vladimir Putin and wants to cut off aid to Kiev.
A common argument describes the chaos caused by the expulsion of Kevin McCarthy, who was supported by only eight extremist representatives in addition to the entire Democratic caucus, as a result of the Tea Party rebellion in 2010, Barack Obama’s second year first term.
More than a decade later, it is clear that, contrary to what the political media claims, the motivation of the group of Republican rebels was not the zeal for fiscal discipline aroused by the stimulus package to deal with the 2008 crash.
The Tea Party and other farright groups hostile to the first black man elected to the White House were not united on either fiscal discipline or conservative governance projects.
What this villain had in common is racism, a systematic attempt to prevent increasingly numerous minorities from exercising the right to vote, and moral and civic depravity protected by neoPentecostal hypocrisy.