Ryan, McConnell Silence Shows Radical Nature Of The GOP

It seems incredible that both Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have still not come out and repudiated Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of our democratic election. And Democrats should hit them hard every single day until November 8th for their refusal to repudiate Trump’s statement. Nancy Pelosi had it right when she said yesterday, “Silence is complicity. Evasion is unacceptable. Speaker Ryan and Senator McConnell must make it unequivocally clear that they reject Trump’s horrifying attack on our elections.”

Right now, the leadership of the Republican party is complicit in an attack on one of the fundamental pillars of American democracy – the acceptance of a democratic election and the smooth transfer of power. As I wrote yesterday, the GOP has become a radical, revolutionary party that has lost sight of its civic responsibilities within a democracy and is solely interested in maintaining and expanding its own power at any expense.