Johnson's call for civility is vertiginous in its hypocrisy

Now that Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson and the national Republican Party are drowning in Donald Trump's zone of shit which Republican will have the courage to take him out? Thomas Matthew Crooks was a real martyr and came just millimeters from saving American democracy but after the incident in Pennsylvania Trump and his disciples turned on the media.

We’ve all seen and felt the tension rising over the last several years, and we know the temperature and hateful rhetoric has gone well over its boiling point. Too often, we view those with differing opinions as enemies, rather than fellow Americans. Our country is not well-served by that. Anger is a powerful short-term motivator, but it isn’t a foundation for successful marriages, churches, businesses, communities, or careers. We must have thoughtful discourse among engaged citizens, not emotional attacks of enraged partisans. [Johnson: A call for civility]

So, Mr. Johnson needs to be held accountable for coddling a would be dictator and building a war chest on the Big Lie, for his failures to support Medicaid, for voting against marriage, for not moving on immigration reform and for his culpability in driving talent from South Dakota. 

But he certainly knows which side of his bread gets buttered so the extreme white wing of the Republican Party owns him lock, stock and schlock. Johnson went from being a likable moderate to becoming just another tool of the oligarchs and globalists who hoard trillions in South Dakota’s banks and trusts because, hey, that’s where the money is. 

Republican welfare ranchers ginned up by the likes of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Wyoming's US Representative Harriet Hageman, disgraced former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, American Stewards of Liberty rabble-rouser Margaret Byfield and others are plotting violence against public land managers in the West.

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