States with GOP legislative majorities are busy creating laws to keep themselves in power without regard to their constituents.
To illustrate this point Trump puppet Rand Paul claims that democracy "goes against our history." A dubious assertion to put it mildly.
What's happening is GOP lawmakers are increasingly feeling frustrated by voters' expressed will.
So now the new strategy is to argue that the will of the voters was never what America was about (!).
A prime example is Missouri state Rep. Justin Hill who was part of a legislative majority to oppose expanding Medicare in the state.
Despite the fact, last year voters in the state approved an expansion of Medicaid eligibility by a 6-point margin, with 82,000 more votes in support of the measure, Hill and his fellow cronies quashed it by not funding it.
Hill also introduced a measure in the legislature to challenge the results of the presidential election - not in Missouri but in six states that were the focus of the Trump campaign.
How corrupt is Hill? Consider that he missed his own swearing-in in January because it fell on the 6th - and he was at the Capitol urging rioters to attack.
The GOP's new emphasis on winning isn't simply about trying to work the refs or bending the rules to suit political ends.
It's about changing the rules at the outset in order to make a rejection of the popular will something that's part of the legalized process.
We're seeing that now in other states that are working on restricting people's rights to vote.
To sum up this new assault against voting rights, Hill spoke for the Republican degenerates when he claimed, "Even though my constituents voted for this lie, I'm going to protect them," he told reporters. "I am proud to stand against the will of the people."
Enough said.
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