The popular delusion of the day involves a reinstatement. What we really need to reinstate is reality.
No, Commander Bonespurs is not going to be reinstated as the official White House resident any time soon. He's still 100 times more likely to get re-stated into a big house with lots of little rooms than he is to find himself in any actual public office again.
But that doesn't mean there aren't millions of Americans living the delusion with him, not to mention the leadership of the party unlucky enough for him to take over. We are watching a political party so void of character it is wholly embracing fiction as its driving force.
It isn't hard to figure out why. Republican voters have created their own biosphere of misinformation. It's built upon the 24/7 propoganda machine known as Fox News and extends to Newsmax and a dozen other cable channels and websites.
These sources spew lies around the clock and their audience laps them up and turns to social media to hurl them onto the unsuspecting public. There's a conspiracy for every situation in the Republosphere.
Putin wouldn't have it any other way.
But lies mean nothing without champions who can put them into practice and Washington, DC is full of them. Senator Mitch McConnell, who put the January insurrection directly on Trump's shoulders initially, now finds a commission to study the uprising a step too far.
Mitch McConnell didn't kill the bipartisan commission on the Capital insurrection because we already know everything we need to know. When he asked his fellow Republican Senators to vote no "as a favor to him" he was being honest. He doesn't want you to see that the party he has led for two decades has declared war on its own country.
The fact that six of his colleagues didn't think enough of him to extend the favor and supported the unanimous Democrats says there's still hope for our country. But it also says that party has consciously decided on suicide.
The only question is will that suicide take the country with it?
As we speak, at least 45 states have Republican led efforts to restrict voting rights. They justify these efforts with Putin's Puppy's claims of stolen elections and voter fraud, but not one of them has extended any evidence. Fraud claims have been thrown out of courts in nearly every state.
Oddly, not one Republican has challenged their own win in the election, just the presidential vote recorded on the same ballot. It's another delusion of a group of criminals who do not want to see their criminal enterprise go down.
They're not only good at pretending things that never happened happened. At the same time they try to take your voting rights based on delusions, they want to stop teaching against racism, xenophobia, or slavery because they either don't exist anymore or were never problems in the first place.
Democracy can't survive in a country where half the populace chooses to live in a delusion. That is the reality if anybody cares enough to stand for it.