GOP: Party of Disunity?

 

Rage and disunity...


Eugene Robinson had an interesting column in the Washington Post a while back. In “The Grand Old Party of disarray,” he argued that the media has made a very big deal about the Democrats problems — their razor thin majority in Congress, President Biden’s low opinion polls, tales of problems in the office of Vice President Harris, and on and on….


But, he says, the reality is that if you want to see real problems, and real disunity, go give a glance at the Republican Party. There, he says, you’ll find genuinely life-threatening issues. The Party is dominated by Trump and subject to his ever changing whims, it no longer has a real ideology short of worship of their Orange Emperor, must consistently claim (because Trump does) that the 2020 election was stolen even though that makes their own supporters less likely to trust the electoral process (and thus less likely to vote, even for Republicans), and is saddled by a lunatic collection of extremists and nutcases (think Paul Gosar) who daily demonstrate to the world the unfitness of their Party to govern.


It is a very insightful piece and well worth a read. It may be, in fact, that the GOP’s “disarray” will prevent it from winning elections in future. 


I worry, though, that while Mr. Robinson’s thesis is clearly correct, and that the GOP’s sickness is on full display to any rational observer, it won’t make a difference at the polls. The Republican leadership is obviously insane, but will Republican voters see that? Or will the madness at the center of the GOP merely match the lunacy of way too many Republicans?


Let us hope, then, that somehow…somehow!…by the midterms, and certainly no later than 2024, sanity is restored to the voting public. Or, at least, enough of it to ensure that Trump and Trumpism will not return to the national stage.



~mjt



Source: “The Grand Old Party of disarray,” Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, Nov 15, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/grand-old-party-disarray/



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