A Threat to Democracy !

 Joseph Goebbells, propaganda minister for Adolph Hitler's Nazi party added a dictum that many politicians have used to their advantage.  " If you tell the same lie often enough, the majority of people will believe it is true ".

Donald Trump lost the last Presidential election  and tried to cling to power with the claim that this was the " stolen election ".  He urged his followers to storm the Capital building and for a few hours the American Democratic institution hovered on the brink of anarchy.

It is perfectly clear that Joe Biden's win was in accord with the election laws in place in America, but Trump persists with that lie and the vast majority of the Republican party supports his claim.  He is now promising that he will stand for election to the oval office at the next election, in four years time.

It seems perfectly clear that he will probably succeed in gaining Republican nomination to again try for that office.  The Republican voting block has clearly demonstrated that it will vote down any investigation of Trump's abuse of power and use of his office for personal advantage.

Trump's term in office was marred by many doubtful decisions.  At essence, he is a property developer unsuited to the machinations of  inter-government affairs. His relationship with women crossed boundaries and he failed to table his own tax returns when questions arose about his tax liabilities.,

Now out of office, he is shielded by the Republican vote from any in depth investigation which might subject him to court action which may preclude him from another attempt to hold office. Without such an investigation, he is free to maintain the lie that he actually won against Biden and that illegal voting was used to deliver an unfavourable total.

It is quite possible that with the advantage of being able to publicly maintain the untruth that Trump votes were deliberately exclusded from the count to manufactuere a Biden vicrtory, he may gain sufficient public sympathy to again win a term in office.

Such an outcome would seriously damage the American political system.  Whern a political party votes as a block to shield its leader from legitimate questionuing about his conduct in office, the integrity of politics comes into disrepute.

Republicans who now voice doubt about Trump's conduct are finding their entire structure moving against them to deny them official sanction to hold office.   They are disendorsed and replaced by others willing to toe the party line.

If this is allowed to rule politics unchecked, it will probably end party politics which has served the nation well since the United States became a Democratic entity.