Stephan: MAGAt Republican Roger Stone thinks he can see a "Satanic Portal" above the White House, and anti-abortionist MAGAt Republican Catherine Gleen Foster, president of Americans United for Life, thinks street lights are powered by aborted fetuses being burnt in incinerators to power generators. Thirty-two percent of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was rigged to steal it from Donald Trump. And 319,000 Americans died from Covid, overwhelmingly Republican anti-vaxxers who voluntarily committed pandemic suicide by not getting vaccinated.
By any rational evaluation, it seems clear that about a third of the American adult population suffers from various forms of mental illness, and they have all signed up to be members of the Republican White supremacy christofascist cult. It is the Jim Jone followers drinking the poisoned Koolaid writ large.
The question is, as yesterday's vote revealed, can American democracy survive this madness? To be honest, I'm not sure.
It was only one half-hour into Wednesday’s congressional hearing on abortion access when it became clear that the Republican contributions to the day would be loonier than a QAnon message board.
Catherine Glenn Foster speaking during a congressional hearing. Credit: Screenshot/CSPAN
“In places like Washington D.C.,” fetuses are “burned to power the light’s of the city’s homes and streets,” claimed Catherine Glenn Foster, who had, just minutes before, sworn not to lie under oath. The GOP-summoned witness let loose the wild and utterly false accusation that municipal electrical companies are powered by incinerated fetuses.
