The Democracy Game
Republicans are playing for a victory in name only
You probably know the phrase won the battle but lost the war. What about pyrrhic victory?
Around 280 BC, King Pyrrhus of Greece had the audacity to invade Italy. With 25,000 men and 20 elephants, he secured two victories against the Romans. Quite the warrior! But at a heavy cost. He lost 7,500 of his most elite fighters, whom he could not replace. The troops were demoralized for not having vanquished the Romans in the first two campaigns. Pyrrhus lamented “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.”
A pyrrhic victory is won at a devastating cost, debilitating the victor for the future. Senate Republicans may win the crazy-town battle for two senate seats in Georgia, but it will be a pyrrhic victory. Perhaps for the party, but most certainly for democracy.
A dangerous gamble
In order for the Republicans to maintain control of the Senate, they must win at least one of the two Senate races in Georgia. They stay quiet about the presidential election results because they fear Trump, believing him to be the key to victory. They know that the evidence for Trump’s conspiracy theories about election fraud is nothing more than the infantile fantasies of a deranged man. They are…
