There is a lot to read about the downfall of the GOP. In this post, I want to refer you to two articles published this week in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Downfall in Georgia

Although Georgia is not the center of the GOP’s downfall, it is front and center in exposing just how far a president of the United States, lawyers, politicians, and even an election worker went to disrupt the 2020 general election in the state. As you know, the District Attorney for Fulton County charged 19 individuals, including Donald Trump, with felony racketeering and conspiracy counts in indictments brought against them. Three defendants in the case have pleaded guilty. They include Scott Hall, a bail bondsman; Sidney Power, a lawyer supporting Trump’s claim of a stolen election; and Kenneth Chesbro, an attorney accused of drafting an “alternative electors” strategy to prevent Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes. The Fulton County case against these men and women who thought they were above the law opens the shutters into how the GOP reached its nadir or rock bottom.

The article by Jeremy Redmon, an award-winning journalist, essayist, and educator, will help you understand how a lawyer with a Harvard University degree could go from being a progressive attorney, with a strong liberal judicial record to being a leading contributor to Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden. Here is the article about Kenneth Chesbro.

Downfall in Washington, DC

The House of Representatives is without a Speaker of the House because the GOP has turned its back on the needs of the American people, and has resorted to name-calling and fighting, so much so, that they have failed to keep a Speaker for over a few months. The downfall of the GOP did not start with this class of House GOPers. It began with the presidency of Richard Nixon (Nixonland), it was kick-started by the administration led by Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, followed by George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. These presidencies contributed to the present state in which the only way to see the GOP is as authoritarian, yet excessively unorganized collection of white men.

Yesterday I read Patricia Murphy’s article, The Week MAGA broke the GOP. Patricia Murphy is part of the AJC’s politics team in 2020 from CQ-Roll Call, where she was a nationally syndicated political columnist. Previously, she was the Capitol Hill Bureau Chief for Politics Daily, a Newsweek/ Daily Beast columnist, and a contributor to Garden & Gun and the Washington Post. Before working in journalism, Patricia was a staffer for three U.S. senators. An Atlanta native, Patricia graduated from The Westminster Schools and Vanderbilt University and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.