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Not to sound too Churchillian, but I think we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican Party. If the country doesn't destroy itself in the process.
In their mad dash to cling to power as an increasingly unpopular minority party, they tapped into the crazy a little too deeply (okay -- way, way down deep) and unleashed a ti…
Not to sound too Churchillian, but I think we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the Republican Party. If the country doesn't destroy itself in the process.
In their mad dash to cling to power as an increasingly unpopular minority party, they tapped into the crazy a little too deeply (okay -- way, way down deep) and unleashed a tide of pent-up hostility and repulsion that is viscerally opposed to their racist "lost cause" of white, Christian nationalism. That should be their complete undoing in a civilized society, one can only hope.
Power-hungry party "leaders" who "thought" they could control angry political-religious fanaticism were tragically, stupidly wrong. Just like they are about everything else that matters for the good of people and the planet. The shameless arrogance and irreconcilable idiocy on the right is on full display in all its glory for all to witness.
People should pay attention to what's right in front of them and believe their own eyes and ears. (...And nose. Wingers -- you can smell 'em a mile away!) The uninfected population needs to protect itself from deleterious thought viruses.
Who knows what the future holds for the modern, so-called "conservative" Borg hive mind, and who cares? Nothing good. That's for sure. Just go away and quit bothering the rest of us.
Quite right, Deepspace. The mainstream Republicans, in particular McConnell, must never have read "Frankenstein". Once the genie is out of the bottle you can't put it back in, as backers of a certain 1930s Austrian politician soon learned. Hopefully mainstream Americans won't sit back passively and let the minority part of fanatics take over. One semi-illiterate demagogue was more than enough.