As a political voice The Arizona Republic has gone virtually silent. Even their most moderately right wing voices, Boas, Gabriel are muted. Having done their best to build up a picture of Biden as a doddery old incompetent and armies of immigrants pouring into America over the border and the country about to explode from socialist machinations hatched by woke universities, and with only Montini and Roberts left to throw a few darts at the odd Republican sinner, the newspaper appears to be preparing itself for seppuku, that ancient Japanese ritual where you drive a short blade into your stomach pull it up then across and bleed slowly to death in a pool of your own blood. It's an honorable death but finding a sharp knife appears problematic. Once upon a time we used to get letters and editorials every day which now seems like a total luxury. Real debate about issues vital to American democracy, the effects of the probity of its legal system, the plethora of lies and falsehoods spread by Republican politicians would seem to be too much for the new editorial board. Perhaps some time in the future. As Hamlet put it neatly in his last breath, "The rest is silence."