This is an attempted coup by Republican party ?

 t was just a week ago that the President was pardoning the former National Security Advisor who pleaded guilty to felonies, basically wiping the slate clean of the crimes the fallen-from-grace official in Trump’s early inner circle had positively confessed to. That case wasn’t ambiguous either. Here we had a man who confessed to the crime who suddenly did a turnabout, replacing his defense team with lawyers he hired from Fox News, suddenly recant his confessions that were made on multiple occasions, facing what seemed to be insurmountable evidence against him.

Judge Emmett Sullivan who handled the Flynn case said of the Flynn case, “I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain, for this criminal offense,” and also queried whether or not Flynn may have committed treason, even going so far as asking prosecutors if such a crime as treason may have taken place.

Flynn’s fall from grace was anything but, well, graceful. On the Fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, the former military general soluted a debunked (and crazy) Internet conspiracy group, Qanon, by posting a video of himself reciting the slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.” Cryptic stuff.

This all came as the election season was ramping up and Trump warned of a government takeover by the Democrats. Meanwhile, Trump himself was hatching plans to try to steal the election by forcing critical swing states to not count the mostly Democratic mail-in ballots, thus giving him an advantage where he needed it most.

Trump at one point demanded they stop counting ballots while the election was underway, with poll workers and local governments handling the operations of counting all the votes, but only in states where Trump was winning. In the states where he was behind, he demanded that they finish the count and count every vote so he would have a chance to catch up. The duplicity is a sure sign of a man and an enabling party lacking any sort of guiding principles or allegiance to the offices or constitution they’ve sworn to serve, men who have nothing more than their own self-interest at heart, even if it means they’ll burn down the Republic to get their way.

All of this reminds me of an African proverb: “Children who are not embraced by the village will burn it to feel its warmth”

And as Trump’s long-shot hopes are being quelched one-by-one, with Georgia Governor rejecting Trump’s calls to “overrule” the voters’ voices that propelled Democratic Challenger Joe Biden to a surprise victory in the traditionally red state, Trump’s watching each of his angles to cheat and steal the election vanish. In desperation, he and his goons are asking for increasingly dangerous and undemocratic measures to be taken.

That reached its pinnacle a few hours ago when Mike Flynn openly called for the Constitution of the United States to be suspended and for martial law to be implemented when he retweeted calls by an Ohio organization for that very thing. We the People Convention created the video that openly calls for martial law to be installed and dictatorial powers enacted, claiming to be following in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln.

We must remember, this battle has been going on since April. Trump has been at war with the election since before it began, and now his own Attorney General and Trump loyalist is saying that there’s no evidence of fraud in the latest election. Trump also fired Christopher Krebs, the former DHS official who said that this election was the “most secure in US history.”

It seems Trump and his remaining band of loyalists simply cannot accept the fact that they lost. And they’ll go to scary lengths to try to prove this fact, including calls to nullify the election that’s already taken place in retrospect, and advocating implementing martial law, in other words, carrying out a military coup to do it.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans sit back silently, knowing they can’t risk taking a stand against the Trump base and losing the vital Senate runoff races coming up in Georgia. If they lose both of the runoff races, they’ll lose the Senate and the Democrats will have all three Houses of Government, the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.