I don't want to keep making political journals, but I have kinda gotta draw my own personal line in the sand here. There are some folks in the last journal that I wrote that, understandably, were like "No, we should work with Republicans because we need them to pass legislation and to heal the country" and then Trump's election-losing got seditious. Literally.

I mean, if you haven't been paying attention, Trump and his cronies have been filing lawsuits in all the swing states they lost, trying to get chunks of ballots thrown out because they were "illegal", which is to say too many Black and brown folks voted. There was, indeed, a racist component to the sedition, with objectors specifically wanting to target counties that had high concentrations of Black people for recounts/throwing out ballots. But while racism was definitely a part of it, the main part was sedition, and the only good things about all those lawsuits was the crash course in legal terms (laches, natch), and their failure rate (1 win, 51 losses, last I checked).

Then, there was the Texas lawsuit. Trump happily and eagerly jumped on board, and so did 126 Republican congressionally elected officials and 18 other Attorneys General. Now, it got thrown out, because duh, but that should be a marker. That is 60% of the Republican delegation in Congress. That's a chunk of state governments. That's... really bad. And these folks are the ones that Democrats in Congress are supposed to work with.

Please, excuse my hesitation that they "should."