Scampering about the hunting preserve we call RINO (Republican in Name Only) Country is … Wisconsin Speaker of the House and long-time far-right extremist Robin Vos (R-District 63):
Backers of former President Donald Trump filed a petition Wednesday seeking to recall Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from office, citing Vos’ opposition to Trump and his not moving forward with impeaching the state’s top elections official. [AP]
This is just the usual symptom of a Party accelerating to the extremes, incentivized by the conversion of the Party from that of advocacy of principle to that of the advocacy of a particular person. The latter attracts the gadfly, the power-monger, the prestige-seeker, who places the idea of actually doing the job below that of the accumulation of whatever it is they seek. Thus, they feel free to call out their targets as RINOs, as failures, even as Vos skates near the legal precipice of what might bring disgrace, and possibly even legal jeopardy, down on his head. His persecutors care not for reality, only for their lust for power, prestige, and possibly wealth.
Nevermind that the neglect of the job will actually negatively impact, sometimes disastrously so, their object of desire.
Wisconsin seems to be a particularly afflicted State, and this will be exacerbated even more if the gerrymandering inflicted on the State is rolled back. A Party suddenly ejected from power, as already exhibited by the entirely bitter reaction to the election and re-election of Tony Evers (D-WI) to the governor’s seat, will lash out both externally and internally.
Look for Vos to not run for re-election; he may actually be expelled from the Party, and be replaced by someone like the Michigan GOP’s chairwoman, who was removed from the leadership just last week, presumably for ineffectual leadership and being a complete loon.
