SIMPLE & QUICK: American political discourse abandons its conversation with the Grand Ole Party as the United States of America does not negotiate with terrorists— including white domestic ones

In late December, Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, was billed by the 45th President of the United States of America to be a “wild day” via Donald Trump’s official Twitter account. As for Congress, today was scheduled to be a day of perfunctory governance by both houses certifying the election of Joseph Robinette Biden as the next elected President of the United States and Kamala Devi Harris as the next elected Vice President. What ensued was insurrection and a day of domestic terrorism.

Stump’d Politics strives to encourage multi-partisan political discourse. The idea is to provide space for earnest conversation between politicos near and far to one another on the political spectrum. The hope is to garner common truths that provide catalysts toward resolution of the everyday and longterm problems democratic governance is designed to adjudicate.

Unfortunately, the once Grand Ole Party is actively attempting a coup on American democracy. Insurrection negates discourse. Americans witnessed domestic terrorists storm the U.S. Capitol Building today. These domestic terrorists are being encouraged by elected Republican officials. For this, the conversation with the current iteration of the Republican party must be set aside until the party experiences full reform and purges its membership of those whom have nurtured, coddled, and encouraged Republican domestic terrorism.

Referring to elected members of the American democratic experiment as domestic terrorists is not a position Stump’d Politics enjoys. However, after absorbing the previous four years of the Republican-enabled Trump Administration and trying to rationalize their conservative political grievance and white cultural displacement as misguided anger, today’s attempted coup has made rationalization no longer an option. No, after today, it is clear that whatever MAGA says it was in 2016, and whatever the Republican party says it is in 2020, the GOP and its leadership in 2021 have extolled violence and insurrection on democracy and that is indeed at the core of any terrorist ideology.

The onus is now on the American political system to rid itself of the scourge of MAGAism and its enablers. The Republican traitors to American democracy must be identified and removed from their entrusted positions of power. From quaint state houses to Federal court rooms, MAGA-identifying and MAGA-identified Republicans must be held accountable. Democratic politics can be sassy, but it must never be seditious.