Sunday, September 8, 2024

Republicans are today’s Whigs

 Just as the Whigs broke in two and disappeared in the mid 1800s, separating onto Slavers and Abolitionists - slavers became Democrats and Abolitionists became the newly formed Republican Party, I believe that the Republican Party is coming to an end, separating into MAGA Cult Trump worshippers and Bulwark Republican traditionalists.

I think the Theocratic-Oligarchic-Trump worshippers have killed the Republican Party and it will just go away. Not sure what rises up, but I can’t see the deeply ugly multiple bigotries currently running things lasting very long. 

They are just too unattractive - no, make that just too repulsive - to last in a democracy. That is why they are trying so desperately, and futilely I hope, to end democracy and create an autocracy. 

I hope there is some healing awakening that can follow what I think will be a precipitous collapse. We need them to return to some sense of sanity and free themselves from the deluded hatreds fed by Limbaugh and Ailes and Murdoch and their successor parrots - and of course being fed by the mentally ill demented orange puff face.  

There are just so many who are so out of balance. We need to find a new center.