Good old Mitt Romney. He’s got something unusual for a Republican in these times: enough of a moral core to have been the only Republican in the Senate to vote for Trump’s removal, and now to be the only one to stand up and denounce Trump’s refusal to respect our constitutional process because he lost. (See www.dailykos.com/...).
In the context of today’s morally bankrupt Republican Party, Romney is like a relic of a by-gone time, when Republicans actually had some belief in playing by the rules of the game, it being a “conservative” idea that one honors one’s oaths, and one venerates the American Constitution.
It’s good that he’s taken that step, but how about underscoring that point further by getting all the remaining face cards of the Republican Party of Old onto the stage to proclaim to the nation something like what Romney is now saying by himself:
"Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."
Who are those face cards? Certainly W, who might well be willing to do so. And representing the Republican nominee for President following W’s presidency they could include Cindy McCain. (Everyone knows her husband would be there if he were alive.) And maybe old Bob Dole has the capacity to participate, and the old Kansas values to motivate him to do so.
(And going back still further, perhaps the children of Ronald Reagan and/or Barry Goldwater.)
All those people speaking together in unison to defend the most basic values of American democracy — respecting our constitutional process and the “will of the people” — might register on some of those Republicans who still have some capacity to hear anything besides Trump’s lies.
America cannot afford for the next Presidency to begin with a substantial chunk of the American people believing that Presidency to be illegitimate.