Still – Not Newly – Crazy After All These Years
May 24, 2024
I
often hear pundits claim that the Republican (their word, not mine) Party has
been transformed by demented, deranged, disgraced, twice-impeached,
quadruple-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and
Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Don Old Trump.
In a
way I agree. But not with the way they are thinking about it.
Trump
transformed them into what they always wanted to be. Nothing more. Nothing
less. They were always (since the Reconstruction Era) the party of bigotry,
class warfare, misogyny and authoritarianism. All Trump did was make them think
they need not be sneaky about it anymore. Hardly an actual transformation.
The
party of Lincoln was reconstructed, along with much of society, after the Civil
War. They stopped being the party of Lincoln. Not that Reagan was any kind of
picnic, except maybe the kind that was interrupted by an angry swarm of wasps.
But today, they are not even the party of Reagan. If anything they are the party
of megalomaniacal, paranoid, disgraced criminal Richard Nixon. But even that
horrific epithet pales in comparison to the depths of depravity, fear, loathing
and fascism that is the party of raging bigot and aspiring dictator Donald
Jailbird Trump.
This is what they always wanted deep in their…well, whatever it is that is where their hearts are supposed to be.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
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