[okie01]

...your premise is that our traditional mechanism of redress, i.e., voting them out is still operational. I don’t believe that it is.

Your premise would certainly tend to explain why the Democrat leadership has been so surprisingly willing to work against the will of the majority -- a course that usually ends in political defeat.

Do they know something we don't know?

Under the circumstances, I'd agree we ought to ask the question...

[Noumenon]

And again, I must ask the question: Why would those who hold our laws and our founding principles in such utter contempt and hatred suddenly find respect for them? And honor the results of an election that dethrones them?

That question demands an honset and unflinching answer. The answer unfolds a brutal truth. Otherwise, we're all just whistling past the graveyard of the Republic.