This is actually from a couple of days ago, but I was tied up with the GMR problems, so here it is today. A cautionary tale from Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo:
It looks more and more like they already have -- look at the pattern over the past couple of decades, as "conservatives" have taken over state governments and, almost automatically, have redrawn electoral maps and passed targeted voting laws to guarantee themselves a permanent majority, which eventually gave them Congress and, if Trump has his way, the presidency on a continuing basis. (Trump, of course, would prefer that he be president for life.) The right, over the past couple of generations, has come to have less and less regard for the foundations of American democracy. And now, with their alliance with evangelical "Christians," the gloves are off. It should be glaringly obvious that "Christians" of that stripe are one of the most, if not the most, anti-American forces at work today.
Read the whole thing, of course, but it's pretty depressing.
Donald Trump will devour the Republican Party from within, warned David Frum. In an excerpt from "Trumpocracy" published in The Atlantic in January, the former George W. Bush speechwriter cautioned (emphasis mine):
Maybe you do not much care about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy. The stability of American society depends on conservatives’ ability to find a way forward from the Trump dead end, toward a conservatism that cannot only win elections but also govern responsibly, a conservatism that is culturally modern, economically inclusive, and environmentally responsible, that upholds markets at home and U.S. leadership internationally.In short, Frum hopes Republicans will outgrow Trumpism and into everything Trump and his followers are working to smash with a mallet. Will [they] reject democracy?
It looks more and more like they already have -- look at the pattern over the past couple of decades, as "conservatives" have taken over state governments and, almost automatically, have redrawn electoral maps and passed targeted voting laws to guarantee themselves a permanent majority, which eventually gave them Congress and, if Trump has his way, the presidency on a continuing basis. (Trump, of course, would prefer that he be president for life.) The right, over the past couple of generations, has come to have less and less regard for the foundations of American democracy. And now, with their alliance with evangelical "Christians," the gloves are off. It should be glaringly obvious that "Christians" of that stripe are one of the most, if not the most, anti-American forces at work today.
Read the whole thing, of course, but it's pretty depressing.
No comments:
Post a Comment