The Maine Embarrassment

Maine made national and world news this week as the first - and at this point only - state in the United States to ban President Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot for the 2024 Presidential election.

What an embarrassment to live in Maine! Governor Mills is bad enough but this tops everything.

Conservative pundits online have been pointing out that President Trump has not been convicted of insurrection but that it is the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution that bans people guilty of insurrection from holding public office. Its main purpose when ratified was to ban Confederate officials from holding office back in the 1800's once the Confederate states had rejoined the Union after the Civil War.

What seems strange to me is that I had to use Google to query whether Donald Trump had ever been convicted of "insurrection". No "conservative" pundits are talking about this.

It turns out that he was.

Seven days after the January 6, 2021 protest, the House of Representatives in a sham political trial with the help of several prominent Republicans voted to convict and impeach President Trump for inciting insurrection on January 6.

When the House of Representatives was taken over by Republicans in the 2022 "midterm" elections, it should have investigated the legitimacy of that impeachment trial anticipating Trump's popularity in 2024. Talk was all it ever did, though, and that impeachment trial was never demonstrated to be the political hoax that it actually was.

What does that mean?

It means that the Republican Party is as guilty as anybody through its silence about that political hoax for what Maine did this week. They saw this coming and ignored it despite the fact that virtually all Trump supporters were aware that the January 13, 2021 impeachment was bogus, was political theater, was the work of political hacks in the US government.

There is no hope for America's future as long as the majority of both political parties want to run the country by using political theater instead of by respecting and advocating for truth.