Sunday, March 10, 2024 | 3 a.m.
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Once upon a time, one associated the Republican Party with a defense of law enforcement officers and a belief that enforcing laws upheld our society. Unfortunately, no more.
The party today is one of open criminality, where corruption is celebrated and the law is a tool cynically wielded to attack one’s enemies and protect one’s friends.
That Republicans are poised to nominate for president a man who has 91 felony indictments, accused of crimes ranging from fraud, to rape, to attempting to subvert an election, should prove that clearly enough. Anyone who thinks this lawlessness is limited to former President Donald Trump, however, is sadly mistaken.
The fish rots from the head, and we got a gut-wrenching example of down-ballot GOP criminality here in Nevada on March 6, when former congressional candidate Dan Rodimer was charged with murder.
The alleged murder took place long after the man’s candidacy; one hopes that murder is beyond the pale even for today’s GOP, but in 2020 the Nevada Republican Party embraced Rodimer as its chosen candidate despite knowing his history of violence. He’d been accused of assault in three separate instances before the Nevada GOP made him their nominee for Congress. One of those cases involved a deferred prosecution agreement in which Rodimer even admitted guilt. Republicans didn’t see any of that as disqualifying.
“Law and order for thee but not for me” seems to be the defining feature of the Republican Party today, and we are all less safe for it.
