Give people time….
Rick Santorum (11-6-20)
This morning on CNN, while attempting to navigate the new numbers of vote counts coming in, Rick Santorum attempted to make the case to allow the process to play out and for GOP voters to allow themselves some time and space to grieve over the what seems increasingly likely the loss of their beloved blank check and empty vessel Donald Trump in the Presidency of the United States.
I’ll readily admit I want Donald Trump to lose in the most agonizing position possible, but putting that aside for a second, I find the notion of Rick Santorum wanting to allow space for grief, frankly, hilarious. The same man who wanted to reinstate ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ would like you give him a minute to the same party that enabled a Muslim ban within the first week of moving into the White House.
Rick Santorum would like you to give him a minute for the party that didn’t care about the psychological damage of children when they knowingly separated them from their parents with no potential way to reunite them later. Rick Santorum would like you to give him and his party some space like he gave the Kurds when he threw them to Turkey and just left them without a support system.
Rick Santorum would like you to give him the time of day so he can grieve for the party that took away civil service protections and LGBTQ+ protections. Rick Santorum would like you to give him a minute to the party that claimed Barack Obama was a nefarious Muslim bent on destroying America.
Rick Santorium needs a modicum of protection for a man who gassed protestors so he could take a photo op in front of a church, holding a bible upside down.
Rick Santorum would like sixty seconds for the party of a man who still wants the Exonerated Five (formerly known as the Central Park Five) dead.
Rick Santorum needs thousands of milliseconds for the party that sought to protect Donald Trump after being impeached.
Rick Santorum desperately wants a moment to lament the falling of a man who admired dictators, and talked about ‘very fine people on both sides‘ at a KKK rally.
The list is endless. The cruelty is infinite. The only thing that stood in its way was a chamber of Congress being flipped to the other side, a planet being knocked out of alignment, but even that was limited in its capacity. Had the House not been flipped blue, the thoughts of what could have been – linger like snowflakes in the wind.
The amount of damage that will have to be raized and exercised will be enormous. It will take decades to heal structural, spiritual, and philosophical wounds.
Rick Santorum needs some time to choreograph his better angels. The man whose party did everything to alienate, overtake, and overwhelm wants a safe space to think about what will no longer be. He’s free to do that on his own time, but we don’t have to give him anything.