7 minutes 30 seconds:  Republican George Conway agrees with the Colorado Supreme Court:

Even as Colorado stands up for the constitution and upholds the 14th amendment by barring insurrection leader Donald Trump from their primary ballots, Iowa gears up to hand Trump the first piece in his scheme to end the American experiment in democracy.

Who can forget the response Benjamin Franklin gave to this question:

-Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” 

  “A republic, if you can keep it.”

We are now in a situation where the very continuation of our 250 year old democracy is dependent on the outcome of he next election. In case you have been in a box since Thanksgiving you have missed a torrent of unhinged rhetoric from candidate Trump promising that he will turn the US into an authoritarian dictatorship that he will use to wreak vengeance on his enemies.

Tip of the hat to EarlG on democraticunderground.com

Not an enemy so you have no worry? Well, maybe you are not an enemy yet, but that can change overnight. Just ask Kim Reynolds. Now she is suddenly on the outside looking in. Will she be on the revenge list? So you may not be on the list today, but a misstep tomorrow and you could be. Just ask Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

Even Trump’s public opponents are too cowardly to cross his path:

Tip of the hat to EarlG on democraticunderground.com

There is no hiding what is going on. Donald Trump has committed crimes and encouraged crimes against anyone who crosses him. Immediately following the decision in Colorado to keep Trump off the primary ballot the members of the Colorado Supreme Court were flooded with threats to their lives. This is what we fought a revolution to stop.

Yet even with all this authoritarian, violent and most would think anti-American movement led by Donald Trump he has become even more popular among Iowa Republican (MAGA) caucus goers. Even his opponents refuse to stand up to him saying they will do what they must to stop him (Trump) from being held to account for his words and actions. This from leaders in a party that once claimed the mantle of “the party of laws.”

Iowa was once a standard for measuring where the center of the country stood. Since the second coming of Terry Branstad Iowa has rushed further and further to the right to the point where we are indistinguishable from any former confederate state. This is so sad.

Therefore on January 15th Iowa will publicly proclaim that we support authoritarianism, violence, the end of democracy, extra-legal solutions to problems and a society dominated by money and corporations and the wealthy. It looks like Iowa Republicans will proclaim this by a sizeable majority.

However one must remember that Trump’s so-called opponents offer little if any policy difference between them and Trump. Since the Trump view dominates the current Iowa (and national) Republican Party, his opponents must be Trump wannabes – even to the point of offering to be even worse than Trump.

Most Americans will be losers no matter which Republican is chosen, but perhaps the single group with the most to lose is women. As we have seen since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and especially in the past month, women’s control over their own bodies has been taken over by state legislatures with disastrous results.

Iowa women can expect to join the states who have insane abortion laws early in the new year. If any Republican becomes president women can expect that laws similar to Texas’ or Iowa’s will quickly become law of the land – in other words abortion will be outlawed for all practical purposes. It won’t stop abortions just drive it underground and make it incredibly dangerous.

Tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

Let me add that no matter how Trump does in any primary or caucus we can expect him to continue his lying and whining and however the election comes out next November there will be a Trump led rebellion.