And so, it is with a heavy heart that I now say that the Republic has died, and not with a bang, but with a whimper. A whimper from those who chose to allow it to die and who continue to blame the one man who insisted upon saving it and was likely the only one who could have saved it. There was a massive amount of cheating that occurred in this last election, the facts are undeniable. And to deny those facts is to deny reality. And yet, it was so many of those who had proudly declared that they would stand with the will of the people who would later simply decide to take the coward’s way out and to do no such thing.

Far too much blame was, and continues to be, directed at those who came to peacefully protest what they saw as being an illegitimate…