We are truly through the looking glass now…
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“Has become,” cute. I think a reasonable argument can be made they became one post-New Deal and definitely after LBJ’s legislation and the greater Civil Rights movement. They certainly were one by the time Barry Goldwater and Nixon’s southern strategy.
Yep - happened as soon as racism became a policy cornerstone and the rest of the part just shrugged and got in line.
The GOP/Nazi party is in full bloom.
If you want to scare yourself further… Go read “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45” (Trigger warning because of book cover with a certain symbol).
Read It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. It’s disturbing.
Voting red is no longer an option for any remotely patriotic American.
Unfortunately, that leaves only one option to vote for. The Democrats need to do well enough to be “better than abstention” and that’s the rub. Wish they’d have viable third parties pop up.
But hey, over in Canada we have third parties and still complain, so…
I honestly thought that the GOP was going to keep Trump in check in 2016. The leaders of that party knew, and continue to acknowledge privately, that Trump was an inept, dangerous megalomaniac. I expected Congress’ Republican leaders to work together to put limits on his authority, effectively putting the big baby in a playpen so he couldn’t wreck the expensive stuff in the house. Like our readiness to respond to a pandemic.
Instead, they let that bull into the china shop and he started throwing hamburgers at the walls. The party has chosen to accept authoritarianism and nominate would-be dictators for President, because that gets them votes. It’s not about conservative values. It’s not even about their religion. It’s all about staying in power, and backing the loudest idiot in the room, no matter the consequences. The GOP will enable autocracy through its pure short-sightedness and by the time they realize they’ve gone too far, it will be too late.
I only disagree with the statement that the GOP has a cult leader, because that implies the Republican elite care about anyone besides themselves. They remain measured in their criticism of Trump because he’s still somewhat popular. The instant he stops pulling in votes, they will shift their fleeting loyalty to the next big thing, and pretend they never liked that other guy, what’s-his-name.
