IT’S A WONDERFUL PARTY
[Every so often, I look back at stuff I posted on my personal blog (to which I have not posted since early in the Pandemic) to see what I got right and what I got wrong. I came across one today from 2017 that has held up pretty well, so I thought I’d maybe get some cheap clicks by putting it on Medium. (To the faithful readers of my blog, both of you are excused from this exercise.) BTW, I have stopped referring to the Republican organization as the “GOP.” It is now none of the things those letters represent.]
Monday, October 9, 2017
I get it now. Frank Capra is directing our politics. It’s 2008 and, having let a Skinny Black Kid With a Funny Name ascend to the highest office in the land, the GOP is considering political suicide. The party intends to destroy itself in two ways. First, it will gerrymander Congressional districts so that Republican idiots can win seats by appealing only to other Republican idiots. Second, it will steadfastly refuse to act as the loyal opposition to the aforementioned SBKWTFN. As a result, the party will become politically dysfunctional and ideologically irrelevant.
But the GOP’s guardian angel has come to show McConnell, Ryan, et al. how the world would be without it. Eight years of ineffective government, Harry Reid using the Nuclear Option to get lower court judges…